Baby and toddler room sharing

[mgah90]

Does anyone have any success stories or tips for putting a baby and toddler in to share a room together when neither falls asleep independently? DD1 is almost three and one of us lies with her until she falls asleep (single floor bed in her room). DD2 is 9 months and is currently BF to sleep and still sleeps in our bedroom but we’d like the two girls to share soon, in next few months at least. Just no idea how we’ll do bedtimes as they both currently fall asleep around the same time (8ish) but both need supporting to sleep. The long term goal is to be able to put both in bed awake, say good night, and leave the room, but right now that seems very ambitious 😅

So anyone had any luck putting baby in with toddler and somehow getting them to fall asleep by themselves? I feel hopeful that with some coaxing DD1 could lie down and try to sleep with her toniebox on or something, but other than sleep training the baby (which we don’t want to do) I don’t really have a plan for her.

We had this when my 2 girls were younger. for us it didn’t really work until my youngest turned about 16 months old so she stayed in with us until then (I did breastfeed up until 14 months so that definitely had an impact).

they now both go to sleep independently after a story with a tonie box on. That didn’t happen until they were 4 and 3 though. They share a double bed so before that one of us would lie with them both until they fell asleep.

Instead of trying to get both of you to sleep at the same time, you can put your younger child (9 months) to bed 20–30 minutes earlier. While one person is putting the younger child to sleep, the other person stays with the older child in another room (reading geometry dash lite, playing quietly). When the baby is asleep, put him in his room, then put the older child in bed.

Put baby to sleep first?

I would just feed baby whilst reading older child a story, then they're both asleep