Sleep training

I do the exact same with my 3 years old and baby. It will get better soon as baby will start sleeping easier then the toddler.I definitely would not do the cry out method because I am exhausted it could really stress babies and kids out, also you can easily lose his trust , but we all different. I am just always trying to keep it in mind that it is only temporary and was my choice to have kids

Honestly same. My toddler was a great sleeper I never had to sleep train him. We rocked and cuddled him to sleep and he slept 12h through never woke up until 1 year. Now my 5 mo is a nightmare sleeper, wake up every 10 min-2h I’m so drained while also caring for my toddler I’m seriously considering Ferber method although I was always against sleep training. I can’t cry every single anymore and handle any more sleep deprivation :(

It’s been a nightmare with my almost 5 month old. I’m not a fan of Ferber or cry it out and I’ve tried a few gentle sleep training methods but they haven’t worked for us. The biggest thing people say is to drop the feed to sleep association but I’ve actually done the opposite and baby and me sleeping 100x better. Before we were feeding her and then attempting to put her down in which she would wake up every single time. Now we feed her when shes in her crib. She falls asleep having her bottle and then she’s down for 3-4 hours until her next bottle where we do the same. She stays in the crib the whole night even if she does wake for a bottle. This is a HUGE improvement from waking every hour or 2.

I did a mixture of the chair method (except I lay on the floor) and responsive parenting where you go to meet their needs but you try to settle in cot before picking up and security that if they cry I'll come. My Oct 23 boy was a nightmare for sleep and naps and it took about 4 months of the above for me to get to a point where I've been able to do kisses and cuddles for night and I walk out and shut the door. He rarely cries after me (more so since his sister arrived in October) but still rarely. I wish he would now sleep through the night but at least he goes down easy 🤣 We've just got to break the habit of coming into our room but since Oct he's had a sister arrive, we removed his dummy, various nursery bugs, we started potty training and now he has chicken pox! Oops!

Whatever you plan to do just try to stick to it