Hi all, looking for advice/examples of how you manage bedtime routines with 2.
DH works away a night or 2 a week, otherwise us incredibly hands on.
DC1 is 2.5 - in toddler bed now, not potty trained (despite best efforts) but gets out of bed sometimes “for a wee” (aka bed time delay tactics.
DC2 is 3m and a really good sleeper at the moment. In a next to me cot in our room. Aware guidance is for them to sleep in same room for all sleeps at 6m but will be using a monitor and owlet plus frequent check ups.
current routine is bath alternate nights for DC1, followed by books on the sofa in their room and nursery rhymes in her bed by either DH or I then we leave the room. Bedtime normally done by 7:30, they usually (though not always) then sleeps til 6:30.
whoever is not with DC1 (more often this is me) feeds (ebf) or cuddles DC2 to sleep downstairs around same time. Wake her up at 10ish, change nappy and sleep suit downstairs (she’s very chatty and loud) then I take her up to bed, throw sleep bag on, get into bed ASAP and feed her. She’s about 50/50 whether she feeds to sleep or just a feed then put her down drowsy and she settles herself.
aim is to do proper routine upstairs for both. But what’s the best way? One child each? Stories together? Can’t bath together yet. Should I even bother changing our routine for DC2 yet until out of 4m sleep regression when that hits?
I need a plan for when DH is away too as can’t leave dc2 downstairs whilst I do dv1 bedtime solo. Up til now family or friends have come over in the evening when DH away.
im probably massively over thinking this. I just don’t want to mess up our working sleep situations, or have the dc wake one another up!
help/advice/examples/head wobbles all welcome!