A mother of three who posts on TikTok as rayne.kennnn opened a recent bedtime vlog standing in a nursery with her baby on her hip and a question for anyone watching. “You guys want to see a realistic night of putting my three kids to bed when they’re all not sleep trained?” she asks. Then she sets the scene: “Welcome to this episode of motherhood, where I’m actively trying to sleep train all three of my kids” at the same time.
What follows is just under three minutes of her moving through the house, one child after another, on a night when she is handling bedtime alone. By the end she is staring into the camera in disbelief, because the whole thing took half an hour. Her caption sums up the mood in all capitals: “I CRACKED THE CODE!!!!!”
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She starts with the youngest. “Sound machine is already on,” she says, lowering the baby toward the crib. “Just have to nurse her to bed.” On-screen text labels the tries as “Attempt #1” and “Attempt #2,” and the next shots show her sitting in a chair in a dim room with the baby under a floral blanket. While she nurses, she talks through what is coming next. Her second child skipped his nap that day, she explains, so she is hoping he falls asleep as fast as he did the night before. The record so far, she says, is eight minutes for each of the two younger kids.
A line of text appears over the chair: “She’s asleep.” Then: “Let’s go put her in her bed.” The transfer to the crib gets its own label, “Scariest moment,” followed by “Send help.”
It works. She reappears close to the camera holding a baby monitor and says she just ran down to grab it. “Now let’s go put the middle child to sleep,” she says, adding that the baby took only eight minutes again.
The middle child’s turn begins in the kitchen, where she fixes him a bottle of milk and is candid about the trade-off. “This isn’t good for his teeth, but I’m surviving,” she says, and then, looking around, “My house is so messy.” From there she tucks him under a white blanket on a full size bed in his room, with the family dog at the foot of it. “I’m gonna hurry and lay with him for a couple minutes,” she tells viewers. “I will check in in just a second.”
The next clips are nearly black, filmed from the bed with the lights off. The text on screen does the talking: “I think he’s asleep?” Then “That was 8 minutes,” then “AGAIN?” and finally a celebration, “YASSSS.”
Back in the hallway light, she explains what she has been doing differently. “All of my kids want snuggles to go to bed, okay? Who am I to deprive them of that?” she says. Putting all three down at once had been taking about two hours as recently as two days earlier, so she switched to putting them to bed individually. Each of the younger two has been taking about eight minutes that way. She also mentions that she is solo parenting, which means there is no second adult to split the kids with.
Then she heads off to get her five year old. This part is labeled “Scariest moment pt#2,” and the on-screen text records the one request that every parent of a kindergartner will recognize: “‘Can I get a water?’ – oldest.”
A moment later she is back in the dark, face lit only by the phone. “Guys, it’s only been 30 minutes,” she says, and the text over her face reads “What the F?” followed by “I CRACKED THE CODE!” She does hedge a little, wondering out loud whether it is wishful thinking and asking, “Did I figure it out?”
The numbers she gives are what make the night feel like a win. “It’s been taking close to two and a half to three hours every night to put them to sleep,” she says. Getting all three down within 30 minutes, she tells viewers, is the biggest change in her whole life.
She closes with the advice she has taken from it, delivered with the baby monitor in her hands. “Get a bigger bed. Get a full size bed,” she says. “Put them in that bed and snuggle them for five to 10 minutes when they’re tired, not when they’re rowdy.” Her version of the routine leaves room for the wild part of the evening first: “Let them play, let them get rowdy and snuggle them for a couple minutes. Do what you need to do, and they’ll go to bed.”
She also explains why this particular fix matters to her beyond the clock. With three kids, she says, everything feels out of control “because you only have two hands.” Bedtime done this way is something she can manage. “And I’m in control,” she says, before adding, “Kind of.” She signs off by telling viewers she will see them tomorrow night.
For parents who want to borrow from her night, the pieces are easy to pull out of the video.
Go one at a time. Her whole change was to stop settling three kids in the same stretch and to give each child a short turn alone instead. On this night she went youngest to oldest: the baby, then the middle child, then the five year old.
Give the snuggle, but keep it short and well timed. She does not skip the cuddling her kids ask for. She limits it to five to 10 minutes and waits until the child is tired, not in the middle of a burst of energy.
Make room for yourself. Her tip about a full size bed is practical: it gives a parent space to lie down next to a small child for those few minutes, which is exactly what she is shown doing with her middle child.
Set up before you start. The sound machine was already running when she walked into the nursery, and she grabbed the baby monitor before moving on to the next room, so she could stay with the second child while keeping an eye on the first.
Let some things slide. The bottle of milk and the messy house both get an honest mention and then she keeps going. On a night alone with three kids, she picked the goal that mattered most and let the others wait.
Time it. She knew the baby took eight minutes and that the whole routine took 30 because she was watching the clock. Having that figure is what told her the new order was working, and it gives her something to compare against the next night.