Cry it out

[Andry]

I couldn't do cio. Sarah still sleeps with us at 2 but we put a toddler bed right by ours and are trying to transition her to it first. It's really not working. Right now we are planing to buy a co-sleeper to use when the baby is born and try to transition both of them to the same room after 4 or 5 months. Then again maybe the waking at night ot nurse will make Sarah decide to move to her room on her own.

KK

With our son, we actually moved his bed to our room for a while to get him used to sleeping on his own.

After we moved it back to his room, for bedtime we put a duvet mattress on the floor beside his bed. He'd sleep on his bed, and my wife and I took turns sitting or lying down on the duvet with a small night light. It was a great set up because it allowed me to get some much needed reading and catching up with the paper! It'd usually be less than 5 minutes before his out, but I'd find myself reading for 30 minutes or so because it was peaceful and comfy.

Also, like many kids, he's fallen off the bed a few times, so the mattress on the floors helps impact that.