Toddler to sleep

Hey y’all! Okay so I’m kind of at my wits end here and any advice is appreciated but we we can’t and won’t do the cry it out method. So we just moved to a new state and house in September and our daughter has been fighting her night sleep for that she’ll either be really easy to go to sleep or fight for a hour or so before passing out. We got her a new bed she will sleep all through the night very seldom and 98% of the time she’s waking up two hours in or roughly four to get us to come get her to come to our bed. We have a spray we have used since way before moving for her bed for night time, we have a set routine dinner play snack bath brush teeth play for roughly 20 minutes read book with mom go to bed. She will not go to sleep without us in there physically and will bang on the door screaming. We’ve been trying to get her into sleeping again when she wakes up but she will completely refuse it and majority of the time will keep me up until roughly 4 am until she’s tired enough to go to bed again. I know she isn’t getting the amount of sleep she needs and it’s killing me. We did get her a new bed and a bed frame when we moved in I just don’t know what to do at this point. She won’t play by herself in her room and looses it if we try to leave while she plays by herself. During daytime her independent play she will do and will look at you and say “bye bye” im just so tired she’s tired I want my own bed back 😭

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From my experience, once they get a taste of sleeping with you on your bed, it’s a done deal lol. We went on vacation once and she shared the hotel bed with me and it took almost a week to get her to sleep on her crib again. I basically just had to leave her crying until she fell asleep, which usually took about 10-15 mins sometimes 30. It broke my heart but I need my rest to be able to keep them alive lol and with her sleeping on my bed that’s impossible. After she got used to her crib again, now she knows bedtime is at her crib. Even though she still sometimes wants to stay with mommy, she doesn’t do the crying tantrums anymore.
Did you just switch her from a crib to a toddler bed? Because I tried doing that and mine did the same thing, she would immediately get up and be like “mama!!” And run after me so I switched it back to her crib until she’s a little more independent. But I know that’s a hard transition too.

no before we moved she had her toddler bed! We did get her a bigger sized bed and such it’s been a fun nightly routine haha she loves our bed and I’ve thought just buying ourselves a new one as we are due for it and she can have ours

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