Gently sleep training 2 year old?

So my husband has been sleeping with my 2 year old which needs to be cuddled to sleep and has multiple wake ups at night. I have been sleeping with my baby in the other room. We wanna swap our baby who sleeps well into the room and get a single bed in our room so my hubby can sleep in our bed again and also use this as a transition to somehow get our toddler used to sleeping by himself but still in our room to give that comfort. How do we go on about it?? I wanna prevent him from coming into our bed at night and make him sleep in his own bed. The goal is at some point to make both kids sleep in one room but I know it’s a long way

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Did they ever sleep in their own crib as a baby? I found that however a baby gets to sleep it’s totally fine as long as as soon as they get to sleep you leave them in their space. If they wake up soothe them and put them right back. We tried the Ferber method and didn’t go past ten minutes. This is not fail proof of course since every sleep regression also set us back but we always continue to try. She sleeps most of the night and even when she wakes up but soothes herself. We’re all in the same room by the way. Different beds.

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