1 year olds

3 things..

Firstly, will your 1 year old play happily on their own?

Secondly, are they grumpy a lot of the time? (most of the time even?)

Thirdly, what does their schedule look like (awake times, naps times etc)?

Hmmm well Im gonna answer 'generally' because of course there are always days that are exceptions to the rule where she does the opposite but generally....

Yes Addison plays by herself, she loves to potter around outside or inside, especially in our new house we have a cupboard in the lounge which she loves taking her books or things she has stolen out of the cupboard and just going in there and playing. That said there are days where she wont get off my knee and I cant even go to the toilet without her wanting to sit on my knee.

No she isnt grumpy that often, she is starting to get frustrated that she cant say what she wants but is pretty good at pointing and grunting till you get it right. She does have a wee temper on her like her mother though and knows what she wants. she dropped her drink cup the other day so i picked it up and she snatched it out of my hand and put it back on the floor then knocked it over again the little monkey.

Normal schedule, awake between 6.30 & 7.30am, if we are home she will have another sleep around 10am for and hour and then again at about 3pm. If we are out she will normally just have one sleep around 1pm. Tea is at 5pm at the latest and it had better be on the dot or she gets grumpy. Then bath and bed by 7pm if not a bit earlier.

Well Jack is 19 months so this is me trying to remember a few months back

Firstly, will your 1 year old play happily on their own?
No Jack has never been good at playing on his own inside. Any time he has found something to do it is usually something he shouldn't be doing. Outside tho he can play on his own for hours.

Secondly, are they grumpy a lot of the time? (most of the time even?)
Jack is now hes really either hot or cold. Happy when someone is playing with him and grumpy if things don't go his way or I can't understand what he wants. This is now tho I can't remember at one. I do remember tho most of the grumpyness was usually due to hunger or tiredness. Now its a different story.

Thirdly, what does their schedule look like (awake times, naps times etc)?
Jack would get up at 8ish have breakfast then nap around 10 then lunch then nap around 2 then tea around 6 then bath and bed at 8 (he wouldn't always sleep thru tho)
Now his routine is
Wake up around 7 has breakfast and a play and then snack around 10, nap at 11, lunch when he wakes up at a bout 12-1, then play and wee snack around 3, tea around 5 and bed around 7

Ashlee also mostly plays on her own and is happy to do so! She's a really, really happy and easy-going, friendly little girl (which I'm sure she gets from her daddy). We're lucky in the fact that if she's crying or grumpy, there's a definite reason and it's easily sorted so she's not grumpy too often.

Her routine is changing at the moment. She's down to (generally) one longer sleep about lunch time, instead of 2 smaller sleeps (morning and afternoon). Breakfast about 7.30ish, lunch about 12ish, afternoon tea, and dinner at 4.30ish. She'll have a bath and bottle before bed at 7 and a couple of pieces of different veges if we have dinner while she's up. We don't do everything to the minute, so times can vary day to day by up to an hour, but the general pattern stays the same.

Taine is a wee bit older than the rest but has always been into pottering about by himself. Jake needed us (well, wanted us) more than that as the same age. Taine is quite happy doing his own thing. When he's teething though he becomes clingy at times.

He had been having two sleeps but now only one - if we are lucky. Wakes at 6/7am, sleep at 1, bed at 6:30/7. then screams awake and 8:30 and climbs in with me. grrrr. but tonight we are up to 9:21 and no sign. just jinxed myself I'm sure.

Firstly, will your 1 year old play happily on their own?
Sometimes. Depends on LOTS of things - time of day, what her day(s) been like, who's around, where she is, etc. Generally she does ok for about an hour in the mornings and gets progressively worse as the day goes on. By 3 - 4pm most days she's a clingy toad.

Secondly, are they grumpy a lot of the time? (most of the time even?)
Again, it depends. Some days she's an absolute angel and very happy - others, it doesn't matter WHAT you do, she's not happy. For her, it seems largely connected to her eating and sleeping - if she's gotten a crummy sleep for whatever reason, she's a LOT worse to deal with, and it's not easily fixed by another sleep (she's stubborn and doesn't 'like' day sleeping) ETA - she's almost always grumpy/clingy/tantrumy/whingy around 4pm until dinner time, just an extension of 'arsenic hour' from her baby days I guess... though strangely we get it far worse now than we ever did then.

Thirdly, what does their schedule look like (awake times, naps times etc)?
We're all over the place here, and I've been trying to sort it out, and it's not working. Speaking very generally, she wakes around 7 - 7:30 but is happy to play / chatter in her cot until around 8 (tho lately both have been earlier ) I get her up around 8, give her boobie, and sometimes a small finger-food type snack. She eats 'proper' breakfast (most commonly porridge) around 9:30 most days. Her naps are everywhere tho - some days down as early as 10:30 and other days not until 1pm or so. I think she's transitioning from two sleeps to one, but none of her sleeps tend to be for more than an hour (which drives me completely mental! ) and again we often leave her in her cot to chatter / play for maybe 15 minutes, very occasionally she'll fall back to sleep in that time :D Most nights she eats dinner around 5:30 and is in bed around 6:30, but again this depends on how she's coping and how much sleep I managed to trick her into during the day

Edited by KiwiWonder

busymum wrote: I'm wondering if she gets a good amount/quality of sleep at day and night? But it would appear that she does... 1 1/2-2hr naps x2 is what Briona was doing from 12-18mos btw.

Absolutely. She is a fabulous sleeper! Our hard work in the early days has paid off. She does 2 naps, and lately they have been 2 to 2.5 hours each + 12 to 13 hours at night. Ahhh...sleep is a wonderful thing She can only last 3 hours up but that is ok...it will extend in good time.

Well...
1stly - Vincent often plays on his own. Loves exploring and standing at things.

2ndly - He's a very happy baby. Always has been. Only grumpy when over tired, tired, or hungry

3rdly - Routine? What's that? My work is up and down, not every day the same.

Been getting up around 8 lately, having a breastfeed and plkay in bed with me, then up about half na hour later, get dressed etc then breakfast. Up maybe 2 hours then asleep for approx 2 hrs? Up again and depending on my work in the avo, may nto have another slepe, but will eat on adn off during the day, have dinner with teh kids i looka fter around 6ish and mroe when we get home 6.45ish. Off to bed depending on his sleeps during day. If had an afternoon sleep, between 8.30 and 9.30 otherwise down about 7. May get up again about 8.30, but back in bed for night by 10 at latest. Doesn't slepe thru yet, but we are slowly getting there i think

so hwo do u master the night routine?

yea lol thats the one
can i ask, what does SAHM mean?