My boys are blessedly healthy at 14 months, but damn are they full service. They both an either laughing or 10:10 world is ending in pain crying; no middle ground. A is always on move running, climbing, and getting hurt accordingly. B is more cautious, but is much more dramatic. Little man needs to be soothed every few minutes forā¦ something. Nothing medically wrong, and heās not even particularly fussy, just when he gets hurt or frustrated by something itās a wail-fest that will typically last until heās co-regulated. Weāre at a stage where they are often dropping the second daytime nap, and generally both are somewhat resistant to sleep. 20 minutes without someone crying is uncommon so daytimes are already a handful.
They are typically are asleep by 8-8:30, and aside from one usually resisting later than the other relatively painless. But B, just like the daytime, tends to need sporadic support -briefly- to fall back asleep. Again, does not generally self-soothe so not intervening just means escalating until he fully wakes either himself or a sibling. Some nights this can be once or twice, other nights as much as every 40 minutes. A sleeps great until around 2-3am, but from there on unpredictable. Sometimes he sleeps, sometimes he is upset for a while, more often he seems in a semi-awake but eyes closed state. He often wants to be touching someone but then pinches/scratches absentmindedly. Sometimes for hours, and if you try to stop that (because it hurts) he immediately rouses and gets upset. Most mornings around 5 they clearly want to cuddle -usually mom- but will quickly fall back asleep. We keep trying to avoid cosleeping but to get any sleep ourselves thatās often the only course. Both are predictably waking up in earnest around 6:45.
Between the two of us a good night means waking up 2-3 times. But bad nights can be downright sleepless or only short periods of uninterrupted sleep.
