Hey Moms I NEED help. I honestly don’t know what to do anymore. My 3 year old is refusing to sleep. No naps. Bed time is honestly the most soul crushing heartbreaking time for me. We brush teeth, cuddle, read a book, cuddle some more. She starts to get sleepy and I put her to bed. When putting her to bed she get ENRAGED. She punches and kicks her bed. She’s still in a crib because I don’t know how to deal with this. Her pedi said a crib is totally fine still. She screams at the top of her lungs. I know she wants me to just hold her and she can sleep on me but I know that’s not an option. We’ve tried warm milk, a warm bath before bed, melatonin, and even explaining to her that sleeping in her bed is okay/she’s safe. She’ll do this anywhere from 30 minutes to 2.5 hours after I’ve put her down.

It’s crushing me. Her pedi says kids go through it and has no advice to give. My husband thinks it’s a little funny. It’s defeating me. I’m 7 months pregnant with number 2 and i just don’t know what to do. I feel like failure because I’ve tried every option I’ve researched out there. I’m so done with doing bedtimes. She’s been absolutely terrible since she was 10 months old. She NEVER just lays down and goes to sleep. I’m sick and tired of hearing “well kids do that”. No one I know has ever dealt with this. Their kids just go to bed. I’ve always been the one to do bedtime and I’m to the point of telling my husband I’m never doing it again. He can do it and deal with her screaming.

Sorry for all the typos as I’m writing this quickly.