16 month old never really sleeps well, tons of tantrums every day and now suddenly throwing his head back with these tantrums!

It may seem like 95% of other kids his age are great sleepers, but from my experience that’s not the case. I think we just tend to hear a lot about the positives. My 16 month old is my third baby and they’ve all gone through good stages of sleep and bad stages of sleep, even as older toddlers. You’re doing great. Don’t feel like you’re doing anything wrong. A good routine can help, making sure he’s getting enough calories during the day, and having some time outside can help as well. Poor sleep can really wear you down, I hope you have support❤️ Solidarity mama!

Maybe try multivitamins and more time outside at least an hour outside a day. As well as not entertaining the tantrums

thank you for the encouragement and advice! We’re in the northeast and have been blasted with snowstorm after snowstorm and like 12 degree weather a lot lately so we haven’t had much outside time at all. It was finally nice this past week (40s) so we played outside but then he got a runny nose and now he’s congested and that’s taking a long time to work its way through even though I’m very consistent about working on it!

And because he’s congested he isn’t eating a lot! But he was being a tricky sleeper before he got sick too it’s just so much worse now!

I feel like he’s slept well only a handful of times his whole life!

This is honestly worse than newborn days

Also yeah I have no idea how to handle the tantrums especially at night. But during the day I usually just redirect. Like that’s not a toy but let’s go over here and play a toy etc

once this new snow storm passes I’ll get a multivitamin! I hope that helps! Thank you for the suggestion

Yeah of course, I also hear that spending at least 15 to 20 mins with undivided complete attention right before bed with an activity that you can both do helps a lot. My son is a great sleeper. He sleep from 1930 to 7am. But he does sometimes go through sleeping regressions. We just have to try and remain consistent. I go in the room lay him back down, pat him on the back, I don’t talk or anything and we continue to do that until he eventually settles for the night. He’s also really picky with the temperature in his room while sleeping hahah. You got this just gotta find your groove through the regressions