Help with New Sleep Issues!

Do not pick her up. She is testing the waters right now and searching for boundaries. Make sure she is only taking one nap a day now and maybe adjust the time so she is tired, like right after lunch and just for a few hours. At 17 mos she should be getting about 14 or so hours a day total. Just make a fun new routine for her, stay very consistent and do the naps at the same time every day. Do not give into tantrums and do give her clear boundaries that are easy for her to understand, even starting time out now. Serve her what you serve her and nothing else. Do not let her snack too much especially before meals and if she is hungry reoffer her what she wouldn't eat earlier. Right now if you nip the finicky eating it will get better, if not it will get worse!
Girls I can say are more emotional and dramatic with tantrums, I have a almost seven year old girl and though there are rarely tantrums I can say it was much more "dramatic" then it was with my son who is almost four. Even now she can really get upset over little stuff and my son is a lot more laid back, hee hee.
Just be consitent and patient and don't give in to her. Right now is the best and most crucial time to teach her when it is bedtime it is bedtime, no exceptions.
Try doing a bath, brushing teeth, getting into jammies and reading stories all snuggled before bedtime every single night or something that is the same every night. She will get her brain geared up around what is happening and that it is a que for bedtime.
Good luck it will pass, girls stay dramatic but it lessens! :)

She may be done napping, although she seems a little young for that. Once my daughter started being too difficult at naptime and bedtime, I eliminated fights by cutting out naps. After that, she went right to bed at night without a battle. She was about 2 1/2, though.
The picky eating seemed to happen to us about that age too...hang in there...my daughter is almost 4, and is just starting to try new foods.

My daughter had just went thru this phase at 12 months. The only thing that I can say is that it goes away. All I did was make sure that she was going to bed at night and at nap time to make sure she was on a strict schedule until it went away. I guess just keep your head up. Let the tantrum. Sorry I know I am not helping much but I have went thru the same and that is what worked for me :)

J. S

Hello E.,

I am thinking early two's. I have two girls and girls are so much different in every thing there is. I listen to my girlfriends and you have traded climbing and curiosity for romancing and drama. But we read an awesome book awhile back called love and logic. It is the most fantastic set of parenting self help books I have ever read. They have numerous books for each step of raising our children. It just might help...

Good luck!
L. Lee