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@sorrycharlie: DD- 11 months: yes
DS: 3 years and he is the master of delay

3.5: NO! Omg it's SOOO bad. I feel like I've tried everything! He gets out of bed at least 5-8 times. If I am stern about making him stay in bed, he ends up just crying and crying and that draws out bedtime even more. It's pretty rough. The other night he didn't fall asleep until 11:30, and then he was up at 7am.

DS1- 3.5 years yeah he's easy but he's exhausted by 8pm since he doesn't nap.

DS2 - 10.5 months - goes down without a fight too. But wakes once to eat most nights

Hmm I fee like I should clarify. DD isn't terrible. Usually she goes down fine and sleeps all night unless she needs to pee. I also wake her to pee before I go to bed just in case. Her issue this week may be due to the fact that she is staying at Grammie's later this week for her first overnight away from DH and I (DS also going).

I would've said no forever, we've always had a really long routine and often lots of crying. But now at 3 he's pretty darn easy most nights. Same longish routine, but rarely tears or protests.

DS- 2, yes

From ages 14 to 17 months, she was a dream to put to sleep. We could put her down sleepy but qwake, and she would be out in 2 minutes. Before that, she was a complete terror to put to sleep and get to stay asleep. She's better now than when she was a baby, but that's not hard to do. I just wish I knew what changed between months 17 and 18 to turn her sleep back to such crap!!!

Hahaha no!

She's better than she used to be. Her new thing is taking her nappy off which means we have to go in to her or risk a MOTN wet bed.

Both my kids are fairly easy. My almost 3 year old will go to sleep usually after a bedtime story, but a couple of nights a week she will think of all sorts of stall tactics and get out of the bed to come and request something or tell me something random.

My 6 month old is amazing at going to bed on her own. She just either sucks her fingers and falls asleep within seconds or sucks her paci. My first didn't go to sleep on her own (I nursed to sleep) until she was much older so my husband and I were shocked that DD2 is just dandy with being put in her crib awake and going right to sleep on her own.

85% of the time, not really. He likes to play around on the bed, ask for milk at least once, do yoga poses, etc till he tires himself out.

Remainder of the time, he will go down easily.