Toddler Sleep

Hi moms! Is anyone’s baby now they’re nearly two struggling with sleep more than ever? My little guy has never been great, but lately the evening put down is taking hours. He screams and screams and needs to be held for a long time. We’ve tried everything including co-sleeping and sleep training over the years. Now I’m wondering if it’s the length of his nap and his wake window before bed.
Could you please share how long your toddlers are napping for at lunch and what their wake window is before bed? 🙏

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Also nearly two, fought sleep from day 1. Resists naps and needs to have hand held to go to sleep
Recently switched over to a floor bed, more space, no more hitting head on crib, blanket and bed in general more comfortable
First wake window : 5-5.5 hours
Naps for 1-1.5 hours
Wake window before sleep 5.5-6 hours
( did 4 rounds of sleep trainings, but the separation anxiety now is like no other, completely reversed it all)

My son is a hyper active kid he fights his naps and fight bed time like if I even try to put him in bed at 8:30 it won’t happen and he will still be awake till he decides he wants to go to sleep and it changes depending on what time his nap lands but if I try to make him take a nap before 4 he won’t he will just stay awake till he decides to take a nap it’s a big huge cycle and his naps are for 2 to 3 hours long but I can’t cut his naps short because then he is fussy all day and I won’t be able to get anything done I already get very few things done your not Alone when it comes to hawing a toddler with sleeping problems

Literally just went through this with my son. He's never been a great sleeper but got better after sleeping training until about a month ago he started waking up in the middle of the night, screaming when going down, and would only be rocked to sleep, nothing else. This is what we did, not sure if all or some of it helped:

- raised the temp in the house a bit (we'd recently lost the sleep sac in favor of a blanket and thought he might be cold)

-adjusted nap earlier to 11:30 go up to his room, in crib by 12 (previous was around 1, he wakes up around 6/6:30 most days)

-cut nap off at 2:30

-6:30 head up to get ready for bed, in crib by 7

-in the half hour before sleep (11-11:30 and 6-6:30) at least one of us had to be 100% focused on our son, no screens, no cleaning, just playing with him

-changed out the hatch sound machine he'd had since he was a baby for a star projector and his Tony with the lullaby lamb

He goes to sleep like a dream, better than he ever has before! Hope it helps!!

Adding: we did have to sleep train slightly again after the changes, but went much better than before

Thank you all so much this is so helpful!!!

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