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I have to say, she's both. There are times she's not a great eater or won't take a nap but in general, she's great!

no & no

he has his moments but he's always been really low sleep needs and if I get one good meal in him I consider it a win

E is neither! Actually, to be fair, her sleep has really improved recently (knock on wood) but she was an extreme crap napper and didn't STTN until she was 25 months. Her eating has also improved recently (knock on wood), in that she now eats every day - until recently, she would go entire weekends on water and cake - but she's still super picky and never eats breakfast.

She is, however, very confident (no shynesss, clingyness), which I am grateful for. She is also very verbal and so we appear to have completely missed the terrible twos (knock on woooooood!). I don't think she has ever had a proper tantrum (although I hear "that's not fair" and "that's boring" 200x a day! Early threenager!).

I guess what Im trying to say is that every child has their challenging points and every child has their easy peasy points.

Milk - Never an amazing drinker of milk (never on the high end of milk in-take, breast or formula)

Solids - Amazing since day 1 besides being sick (so one of my telltale signs is if she doesn't eat!)

Sleep - Took us 8-9 months but now she sleeps and naps great!

He's bf so it's hard to tell if he is a good eater but he's gaining great. He is a good sleeper. It doesn't happen every night but he usually STTN.

E is not great at either It is a huge source of stress for me, especially the food. He's 17 months.

Food wise, he is really picky, doesn't like to try new things, won't eat most veggies, won't eat most meat. Carbs, fruit, dairy. That's pretty much it. He is plenty big and will eat a lot, but I feel like it isn't really as healthy as I would like. And meals, especially dinner, usually involve a lot of screaming.

He's not a terrible sleeper, he goes down pretty easily at 7 but is up between 4 and 5:30 most days, some days I can get him to go back to sleep. Naps are better than they were but still a bit of a crapshoot.

Yeah, my son was always one or the other. In his early years, he was a poor sleeper but a good eater. Now he is a poor eater but a good sleeper.

I say decent sleeper and good eater. Her slee is better than o expected but I know a lot of people wouldn't consider her sleep good but we chose not to sleep train so we deal lol.

She's a good sleeper and a good eater. But we only just started solids a few weeks ago so she hasn't had much chance to be picky yet. She has loved everything we've given her though, so far.

I have one bad sleeper/bad eater and one good sleeper/good eater.

Amazing sleeper, bad eater (sometimes) - since sleep training a year ago I can count on one hand the number of times he's woken up in the night, and he reliably naps 2/3 hours every day.
He doesn't eat well and has veeeeerrrrrry slowly climbed from the 2nd %ile to the 20th with a lot of coaxing. He is getting better but its still a constant source of stress.

until a couple of weeks ago, I thought great sleeper and great eater. He's still relatively good at both but naps have gotten shorter and shorter and he can go through picky phases when eating........ I'm still hoping he starts to take a longer nap every day....soon.......

E is both.

He's a great sleeper now. Months 4-8 were absolutely brutal. Now he sleeps 12 hours most nights plus a 2 hour nap. Nap varies a little bit but it's pretty consistent 2+ hours. Eating is a total toss up. Sometimes he's great and will eat anything we give him. Other times it's a "favorite" item or something he's happily eaten before and he won't touch it. I voted good sleeper/bad eater, but his eating really isn't AWFUL. He just seems to go through phases.

I'm lucky that both are good eaters and good sleepers. Of course it wasn't always that way. It took months to get LO2 on board with eating, which is even more difficult with his long list of allergies.