Out of no-where my 18 week old has started to make an awful fuss as bedtime. In the past she has been sleepy and been put down awake and sucked her thumb until asleep and stayed asleep until morning (I am blessed) but out of no where she has begun to cry and complain viciously when I put her down dispite being exhausted. This has been happening for ten days in a row now and it can take her an hour sometimes to get herself to sleep. She also sometimes wakes in the night and although she never cries at night and never has (again, I am blessed) she moans and kicks off her blankets and hits the bars of her cot until I go in and settle her (this often involves bringing her into my bed so I am probably my own worst enemy)
I havent changed my routine at all and this crying came out of nowhere, I've always structured a pretty regular routine (I'm using Gina Ford's method) for her and it's been working brilliantly until last week. What's going on??? Could this just be a phase?