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My 14 month is a great eater, and a decent nighttime sleeper, but a horrible napper. We're at a point right now where about half the time she naps for 1.5 hours total for the day. This is by far the best she's ever napped. And it's far from consistent. But I'll take it. At her low point nap wise, from months 5-10, she was napping an average of 30 minutes total each day, in two or three chunks.

My son has been an amazing sleeper since we sleep trained at 5 months (he's 2 and a half-ish now) but has always been a terrible eater. He dropped to below the 1st %ile before he was 1 and has gradually been clawing his way back up to the 10th. In a way I actually think the two are related for him - he started sleeping through the night when we sleep trained and I think he night weaned before he was ready - I feel like it messed up his hunger cues and the better his sleeping got, the worse his eating got. I will say that it was much easier to deal with the bad eating getting a full nights sleep every night!

LO just turned 2 and has always been a poor sleeper, though we've had a few decent stretches. I don't know what to say about her eating, she's not picky and will try anything but just isn't interested in food very much. A few bites at each meal is enough, in her mind. I'm not going to push it with her unless the doctor tells me to, and so far he's fine with her weight.

My 3 yo is a good eater- not super great but I would say very good for a 3 year old. She's an ok to below average sleeper.

So far the 10 month old is a great eater and so so sleeper. She's a good mapper but I will be very happy when she starts sttn.

Before 11 months she was a good eater. Now she's both!

Both! He's 6.5 months old. He's been STTN since 2 months. He takes a reliable 1.5-2 hr nap after he wakes up, eats, and plays for a bit. He loves veggies a bit more than fruits, but eats anything we put in front of him even the bland cereals.

My 3 yo has always been an awesome sleeper, but she stopped being a good eater once she had to actually eat. She was super chubby when she nursed and got bottles but now she is a string bean- I think she is just too busy chatting and wanting to play. I end up having to hand her bites until I feel like she has had a reasonable amount.

I always thought the two went hand in hand. When my LO was a baby she was an eating machine and people would say "that means she'll be a good sleeper!"

My oldest was neither but, since she started STTN consistently just before her 3rd birthday, she has been an amazing sleeper. Still a terrible eater though!

My baby is a good sleeper by comparison, but not great. She wakes at least once but often several times a night. She is an okay eater - will only eat smooth purees and spits out bland food like porridge - but she's much better than her sister!

We certainly had plenty of challenges during her first year with naps and establishing the ability to fall asleep on her own and with nursing (so many LC visits), but overall and especially now that she's a toddler, I'd say she's great at both. Though we try not to use value statements like "good eater" - want her to develop her own relationship with food. I know we're lucky and I'm nervous how unprepared we'll be if we get a second kid that doesn't like to eat or sleep.

Mine is 2.5 and middling in both. She does sleep all night (as far as not getting up for extended periods) but she always wakes up and wakes me up, even if it is just to cry out briefly.

She was a great nurser though and did great with solids until she got old enough to realize she could say no. So like most toddlers, she got somewhat picky after 1.5 She's not a bad eater overall, but I wouldn't call her "great". And I wouldn't call her a great sleeper either, but not terrible.

Both! Slept 12 hours last night and had a whole egg, 1/2 avocado, slice of bacon and some potatoes for breakfast. 20 months

I would say both, usually! But, I voted sleep over eat because he doesn't eat any vegetables!

She was a terrible sleeper until we sleep trained.

Since then, she's been a good sleeper and an ok eater, although I'd say she's been getting slowly but progressively pickier with time (she's 3).