FTM here, with zero IRL mom friends so I'm here to get some advice and/or commiserate if anyone else is having this experience.
20m old is suddenly rejecting her food, but asking for more (as in, give me more food but not what's on my plate). Happening across all meal times. No "safe" food is safe anymore, we have to keep offering different things. I know about Division of Responsibility but it doesn't sit right with me because once we find something she wants to eat, she'll go to town so she's clearly hungry.
No idea if that's teething; at her dentist appointment on April 17th, the dentist mentioned seeing a molar possibly trying to pop. Maybe it's just a picky eating phase? If it's a picky eating phase, any advice on how to handle it? I'm starting to dread dinner times because it's such a struggle.
Biggest issue: possible sleep regression? For the past 2ish weeks, she is refusing to sleep in her crib. She's still getting a bottle of heavily watered down milk right before bed (it's 4oz water to 1 oz milk) because we know we need to stop the bottle. Normally she would pass out, husband would transfer and she'd sleep through the night.
Now, she's still passing out but the second she's put down in her crib, she wakes up and starts screaming/crying. We give her 10-15 minutes but it doesn't work so we go back in to rock her to sleep. It happens again so we get trapped in a cycle; in the past 3 nights, we tried this for an hour and half+ until I finally just took her to our bed and then she passed out.
Bedtime is normally 7:30pm, she usually wakes at 6:30am and nap time is from roughly 12:30-2:30pm (set by daycare, she doesn't always nap the 2 hours, it varies).
Any advice on getting through this? The sleep thing means my husband and I have no time together in the evenings and we're having to sleep in separate rooms.
Thank you in advance if you've read through all of this and any advice given!