Toddler won't let us leave the room - advice?

My LG is 2.5 and has been sleeping in her own room since about a year old. We've always stayed in her room until falling asleep then leave. Since age 2, she's become more clingy especially with Daddy and takes a long time now to fall asleep. Needs physical touch to fall asleep like a hand hold. Will fight sleep a lot and it's hard to handle as we go to bed at 7 ish and it can take 2 hours to get her to sleep. Will scream and have a meltdown if we try calmly leave. We have a young baby too so it's a difficult juggle as the only respite we have is when they're both asleep. Would love any advice. Have tried dropping nap / bringing bedtime earlier etc etc and no success.

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Will this heal?

My sons fell over and bit his tongue this morning but took a chunk out 😭

Useless husband

Right, our 9.5 month old had a terrible night. Some of the wakes were 30 minutes apart. My Husband didn't help once. Didn't even wake up to our son crying.

The baby woke at 5:30 and I managed to get him back to sleep and he woke at 6:30 for the day. I'm nudging and tapping my husband to wake up and get him as I just need an extra hour of sleep. He didn't budge and I'm not leaving my son to cry so I go get him. I wake my husband and say it's time to wake up as I've been up all night so not fair for you to sleep in when you've had uninterrupted sleep. He said why didn't I wake him!? Why would I spend 2 minutes waking you when I can go and settle him in 30 seconds.

Anyway, my son's getting bored in the bedroom so my husband says to take him into the living room. I'm standing waiting for him to get up and follow as he's still laying down on his phone. He told me just take him and give me 5 minutes to wake up. Which I followed with I didn't get 5 minutes to wake up to which he replied angrily I DON'T CARE. ok rude. I'm now sat in the living room crying. It's been 30 minutes and he's still in bed.

Not really looking for advice just a tired fed up wife.

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Between 10pm to 6am we have around three nighttime wakes where he’s up for around 30 mins to an hour. His longest sleep stretch is from when he goes down which is 3 hrs, and then he’s waking every 2.5 hours after that. Any advice on how we can lengthen the 2.5 hours? I’m hoping to get him to the 4/5 hour mark. He’s been in this pattern for the last three weeks and it’s not improving.