night waking - possible to reduce?

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My DD is 14 months old and during the day showing separation anxiety and distress due to teething. At nap time right now she will only sleep while cuddled, and same thing at night. She wakes often - is there anything I can do?

controlled crying

she needs to learn to sleep by herself and settle herself

PU/PD, gentler than cc. I did this at 14 months old.

I'm not sure she'd respond well to controlled crying whilst also experieincing the seperation anxiety and teething - agree that PU.PD is much kinder, and maybe for her teething ensure you give her a good painkiller E.G medised is effective and helps sleep too.

Pu/PD worked for my dd at14 months after 6 months of hell. I am a zealous convert

what is Pu/PD??

It may take 2-3 weeks, but definitely works. I found it no more tiring than being kept awake all night by her.

When she wakes, she will stand up. Go in, lay her down, no eye contact, pat her gently and say something like sleepy time. Leave the room. She will immediately start cryingand stand up, go back in repeat process, leave straight away. Keep going until she stops crying(although crying may raise to bellowing or screams of outrage at some point!)

She may wake again, then repeat process. We noticed a change in her after about a week, then it really started to work at about 2 1/2 weeks, BUT she is very very determined and strong willed. It does work, but you must stick with it, and not give in You will get regressions up to about 6 weeks, but she will improve. It's about changing her expectations and behaviour.

Do same at naptime, (we noticed these improved first)

Good luck