We've been really lucky up to now, as dd has been a great sleeper, hasn't woken in the night for a feed for many months now. So I guess it's pay back time! The sleep problems started when she was ill with a nasty cold about 3 weeks ago, combined with her top 2 teeth either side of the front ones coming through. She's now over both those things, but her sleep seems to be getting worse & worse! I've been reading the No Cry Sleep solution, as she's never been that easy to settle (always fed to sleep, bf), and based on this, have been trying hard to establish a bedtime routine. Funnily enough this has worked brilliantly, and she goes to sleep no problem. Then the problems start!
She's now waking up so many times in the night, I couldn't even count them. In the earlier part of the evening, this will sometimes be a bit of a grizzle, so I don't rush in, and sometimes she will resettle herself. But by the time we get to the 3rd waking or so, she gets more & more worked up, to the point where we can't get her to stop crying, even if she comes into our bed. Fortunately I only work part time, but on the days I do, I have to be up at 5.45, and on those days I'm exhausted. I don't think she's waking with hunger, as if I try to feed her, she's not interested. She has started to eat more during the day recently (although still not a lot), and is pulling up to standing all the time, so could this must've a developmental thing?
Someone tell me it's just a phase! Any advice much appreciated, this is driving me and dh round the bend!