What are your nighttime routines?

Clarissa

I have a 20 month old little boy and for like the last month, he has been fighting sleep like never before. Our routine with him has stayed the same almost to a T since he was a couple months old. Bath time (if needed) around 8 and then getting ready for bed and going to bed by 9. We used to give him a bottle of milk when he went to bed until a month ago. We cut out bottles and if course he didn't like that. He reverted back to wanting to be held/rocked more, which we have been trying not to do. We also decided to start a new thing where we have "quiet time" 30min-1hr before bed where we just sit cuddled up with a blanket and watch a movie and then go to bed. Before, he would basically just play and run around till bath time or bed time. He does well just sitting and watching the movie for the most part but he will not go to sleep. Whether I rock him or not, once I put him down, he's either crying and screaming or messing around with his bedding or stuffed animals or kicking a wall. I put him down around 9 every night and he doesn't fall asleep until 10:30 sometimes later. That's after me going in multiple times to lay him back down and rub his back for a few min and leaving the room. I don't know if it's just him growing and his brain changing or if it's the screen time before bed or what and i am ready to pull my hair out 😆 I was thinking about instead of screen time before bed, reading the thing is even though we try to read with him during the day, he will not sit down and even look at the book from start to finish without wanting to get up and run around. Any suggestions and ideas would be very much appreciated. Don't know if it's obvious, but I'm a first time mom and second guess everything I'm doing all the time lol I wanna add that even at his nap time (usually 2/2:30-4:30) he fights it. He wakes up for the day around 10/10:30 every morning (wakes up at least once usually more almost every night too)