Bedtime help :( piog

2 is one of the big seperation anxiety stages. She just doesn't want to be alone. 

my daughter is 2 and has slept in her own bed throught the night since 4 months.evven when we moved her to a big girl bed the transition was smoothe. the key imo is  bedtime routine. we start with watching a dora episode, after dora she brushes her teeth, then we get night clothes on, she gets a bedtime story, then we say prayers... we turn off her light and she is asleep in no time( of course some nights we have to go and say its slee time and she is good after that)

 Get a low light lamp or night light and use nightly. Start your bed routine: wash face, night clothes, use restroom, brush teeth. Take her to her bed read a short story. Tuck her in. Get her a stuffed animal the glowworm, or the new lambs/turtles etc that have the backs that glow stars on ceilings.

Each time she gets up walk her back to the room (this can go from 2 weeks - 3 months) - it is frustrated and exhausting but they do get it believe me.

I am single mom with 3 kids...been there 3 times and it worked like a charm. My 4 yr old right now I am sharing room but his bed is next to mine - we are in process of redoing rooms. He goes to his bed and goes to sleep with me out of the room.

WISH I COULD HELP HAVING SAME PROBLEM RIGHT NOW.HE WAS DOING GOOD TIL WE SPENT FOURTH JULY WITH FRIENDS OUTTA TOWN and had to share now its my bed or nothing!!

I am a moderate CIO believer - not to the extreme. My dd is going to be 2 in December and has slept in her own bed since she was born. If she woke up (while she was an infant), we'd get up and rock her back to sleep... I never let her CIO when she was that young. After she turned one, she became more and more anxious about bedtime. We'd rock her to sleep every night, and found that she'd wake up in the middle of the night more than once, just because she'd wake up and realize we weren't there. Talk about exhausting. She is a very big girl (tall) so it got harder and harder for us to rock her to sleep and put her to bed every night. We started to let her cry it out after putting her to bed... after 2 or 3 minutes, I'd go in and "reset"... and she'd keep on getting up and crying. But after 10 minutes or so, she'd settle down. I know that CIO isn't for everyone, and many people are against it, but it worked for us.

We now sit down before bedtime, read a book or two, talk about what we're going to do the following day - "what are we going to do tomorrow? that's right.. we're going to _____ tomorrow! but what do we have to do before that? we have to go to our big girl bed, lay down and go to sleep so that we can go do _____!"

The key with our daughter was to let her fall asleep in her bed on her own. If we rocked her to sleep, she'd wake up. CIO is rough I won't lie, which is why I try to keep it to a minimum, but that is what worked for us so idk if that is something you believe in or not. 

Hope you get your bed back soon! They are so cute and cuddly til they start to KICK in their SLEEP!

I've known lots of babies that started out sleeping 'well' and ended up waking lots through the night ... I think this may have nothing at all to do with where she's sleeping.