DD has never been a great sleeper but she has always been great at going to bed. Right from 12 weeks she was in bed by 7, sending herself off to sleep.
Up until last week she would have her milk, have her story, have a cuddle and say "cot please mummy". Bliss. Now, she hates it with a vengeance ("don't like cot, stay with muummy"), thinks up every excuse in the book to try to delay bedtime (done a poo mummy, done a wee-wee, knee hurts, need calpol, hungry, thirsty, more milk, another story, more cuddles etc) and gets really upset when I leave the room (although last night it was more miserably resigned to her fate . And in the morning, instead of playing with her dolls in her cot, she screams blue murder until I go into her. Then she is all smiles.
Is it a stage? Is it separation anxiety? Is it time for a bed? I am just trying to be firm and am hoping it will pass.