How long is bed time taking for you? My LO used to take 20 mins but ever since she got a bug in November she takes 1hr-1.5hr to sleep. Even if she’s exhausted. It’s the same if she’s had her usual nap, shorter nap, or no nap. I’ve just had baby number 2 a few weeks ago and I don’t know how I’ll manage the 2 bed times.
I was just bf the newborn whilst sat in my toddlers room whilst she’s in bed. Both of them were fighting their sleep and getting agitated & overtired. I feel so bad as my toddler wants to sleep on my lap in the rocking chair but I tell her she has to sleep in her bed because my lap is hurting (only way she doesn’t meltdown). Then she sees the newborn in my arms/lap breastfeeding.
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We've had the same thing! We've changed up the routine now in the last 2 weeks and it's helping to get it below an hour, but we're still at around 40 minutes. No baby 2 here, but we've stopped doing stories in bed and now do it all downstairs, so when she goes into her room the lights are already off, it seems to have stopped her night wakings too

I’m in the same boat with a 6-week old baby and a toddler that’s starting to resist bedtime. If you can, I recommend just having time with toddler instead of both.
I sit with her watching videos on my phone for a few minutes (up to 10 mins), lights off, wrapped in blanket. Then we turn the phone off and continue to cuddle. I then offer to put her to bed and let her resist, so I say, “ok we can keep cuddling” and take the chance to talk to her, “mummy loves you, you’re so brave and clever” etc, and when she’s relaxed again for a while I say “shall we put you down to sleep?” and move her to her crib. At any point if she starts to kick off I tell her she can continue to cuddle mummy, or we will put her straight to bed. If she is truly upset I’ll pick her up again, if she’s just shouting then that gets ignored. Longest it’s taken us was 30 mins of cuddling before she let me put her down, usually it’s about 5-10 mins after the videos before she’s out.