Sleep: what would you do differently with second child

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So we're anticipating the birth of our second child this Summer and have started thinking about the sleep issue. It really was an issue for DD (2 years).

I'm wondering what lessons you've learnt what you'd do again

For us we had a bedtime routine from 6 weeks that included me BF to sleep then putting her down in a Moses basket in our room. Meant we had an hour by ourselves.

Honestly after that it kind of went to pot and I can't remember how the hell we got through it. There was a lot of bed/ room hoping throughout the night.

So what did you learn?

Dd2 is now 6 weeks old. Our main difference has been not attempting to all sleep together and dp and I taking turns sleeping with dd2, so we both get more sleep.

We have found that dd2 is just an easier baby who has slept more easily and for longer stretches than dd1 did. Turns out babies are different not that dd1 didn't sleep because I was a crap parent as I thought at the time.