please help me
dd is 15 months and has always slept very well. We went through a period a while back where she would be filled with rage when we left her in the middle of the night - controlled crying (entering every minute) worked after 2 nights.
For the past week or so she has had difficulty settling herself, but we found music seemed to work very well.
However last night was appalling. She went to bed at 7 as usual, and woke at 9:30. Cried whenever we left her, not in rage, or pain, or hunger (just a gentle standing in cot sob) Tried to settle for an hour, then dh took her into the spare room with him (as it was then our bedtime)
at 11:15 after being climbed over, hit and shouted at, he took her downstairs where she played until 1am, when i took her into bed with me.
she is teething, but she hasn't seemed in pain for a couple of days - and anyway we gave her ibuprofen last night just in case.
I think it might be milestone waking, her speech is really coming along and she is constantly trying new sounds - although we have never had milestone waking before
please can anyone tell me how i should have handled it, obviously bringing her downstairs to play was possibly the worst thing we could have done, but we had no idea what else to do?
TIA