I NEED SLEEP!!!! How to get my 2 year old to sleep at night w/o CIO

[LittleABC]

Please help!! DH and I need sleep in the worst way. DS wakes up anywhere from 2-6 or more times a night. He just turned 2yrs. He wakes up screaming and crying for either paccy, blanket, drink, for me almost anything. We hate CIO and only want to us it as a last resort. We didn't have to do it with our DD's. But we need sleep. He also can go into a tantrum if he wakes up enough and itsn't getting the response he wants. And then the tantrum goes on forever and takes so much time to calm him down. He is so stubborn during the day. And it is worse at night when he is tired.

Any advice would be welcome. I can barely function cause I am so tired.