What do you think our odds of success are?

[BrightSparkles]

Both girls sleep in same room.
Miss J is in bed at 7.30pm - 2 books ONLY, kisses and then we leave the room. We have the lights dimmed in the room (more so i can see what i'm doing with Miss S) but then we let her go to sleep on her own in there. Sometime she goes straight to sleep, other times she'll read books and play with her baby in her bed for a while. It seems to work and we've not had a problem doing this.
Hope you can find something that works. x

[~Kim~]

Mel, I was going to suggest what you've already suggested. We struggled with DD for ages. She another who wants you to have her with you, to pat her bottom, or hold her hand or sing me a song mum. Then along came DS and he's like THE worst sleeper in the world....so I didn't have any time to give to DD at night and she'd just bung it on for DH.

Similarly to Rach, we found what worked for us was letting her watch a DVD. It came out of frustration and exhaustion but it worked, and we're good with that. She has a portable player and headphones and she was allowed to pick what she watched. Generally only took her 10 minutes to forget she was supposed to be doing that awful bed thing...and she'd fall asleep. The only rule was she had to lay still or it went.
We still do it on occasion, but now she's just got that bit older, and she's OK with being on her own to go to sleep. Otherwise sometimes I know she's awake for ages but she's still OK to just lay there and be by herself.

ATM we're wanting to put our two in together but it's DS that's the killer and he's too little to do all the stuff we have tried over the years with DD.

[rhyb]

Some nights (and I wish I was joking here) DS screams and screams for us cz he thinks once he has us in the room we will get him out of the cot. The second his feet are higher than the rungs of the cot, he's fine. No tears, he'll even laugh and try to play with you. So unfortunately I have to leave him to CIO. Ill bring him a bottle and a book but thats it. We cant even go into his end of the house for about half an hour after we put him to bed for fear of him waking. Sounds bad but we're used to it.