Cot to bed for toddler with sibling baby in same room - how did you do it?

[jennifersofia]

Doesn't the toddler jump out of bed and wake the baby up? I just have visions of dd1 going over to dd2 for a chat, a bunny stealing session, blanket removal, etc. How does this scenario work?

yes, sometimes this did happen but only for a few nights and several tellings off

Not got direct experience of this yet (ds 5 months and will go in with 2 year old dd in about a month) but re the cot to bed thing - have you tried using a grobag (kids' sleeping bag)? Originally, we had a duvet on dd's new bed but she kept getting up and out and messing about at bedtime so I got her old grobag out, zipped her in (and put a safety pin at the bottom of the zip to stop her undoing it) and the first night she only managed to make it to the bedroom door before collapsing like she was in a sack race. It took only a few nights before she stayed in bed all the time and eventually we went back to the duvet. If she does start poking ds in the morning when he's in her room, we'll get the grobag out again... www.grobag.co.uk is where you'll find them and they do them for kids, not just babies.

Not really a problem except when DS not tired anyway. DS just lay down and went to sleep. We did try to get DD asleep first if at all possible, but quite often I put them down at the same time. If they are both in the same room anyway hopefully your DD1 won't see the point in botthring DD2