Solo bedtime with 2 kids

[bunny85]

Hi all. I'm after some advice for the future. I have a 4 year old and a (almost) 3 month old baby. Right now because of the lockdown my DH is at home and bedtime is easy as he deals with the older one while I breastfeed the baby etc. Still the baby often gets so unsettled at bedtime that he cries a lot and even as it stands my DH pops in often to give me a hand with rocking him (the baby is quite heavy). However at some point in future my DH will of course go back to work and he often has to stay behind and even when he doesn't, he's never home before 7. Which means I'll have to somehow try and put two children to bed at once. How?? Now it's worth mentioning that DS1 who's 4 needs a lot of attention before he can fall asleep. Cuddles/kisses/stories/water/anything and the baby as I said often takes ages to fall asleep and requires lots of rocking, breastfeeding etc with crazy screams in between. DS1 has his own room while the baby sleeps with us in our bedroom. Now the question is how to people do it? Any tips? Many thanks x

Hello, my son is nearly 3 and daughter is 8 months. I have an ikea paong chair in my sons room. I read stories to them in my room (the big bed). Go to sons room, put him in bed, kiss him night night and then breastfeed in the chair while singing songs in the chair. I then sit in the dark until my son is asleep and carry baby to our room and put in her cot. My son won't go to sleep unless we are with him. My son still gets in bed with us during the night. This used to worry me, but I now enjoy the cuddle, I know I will miss it when he doesn't come in anymore. It might seem like hardwork and unconventional, but it works for now and I think parenting babies and children changes a lot.

Thank you Spanz10, this is a good idea. I'll look into getting a similar chair x