DD2 is almost 8 months and has always been a reasonably good sleeper (bar the odd bad patch).
One thing that has been consistent though is that at night she will always go to sleep easily when I first put her down, regardless of whether she then wakes later during the night.
Three times in the last four nights we have had real problems with her going to bed - she will get hysterical and even if dh or I picks her up and cuddles her it takes ages for her to stop crying. She will eventually calm, we'll put her back into bed and then she starts again.
Saturday and Sunday night she did this (and was also off her food a bit at the weekend), but last night she was fine and went straight to sleep.
Tonight though, I put her to bed at the usual time, after doing the usual bedtime routine (bath, breastfeed, into bed with dreamshow light on), and as soon as the music stopped she started crying. After much to-ing and fro-ing, giving teething powder, dentinox and finally Calpol (as have been wondering if she's in pain from teething), she finally went to sleep about 8pm. Have just had to go up again now as she started crying again, but this time settled with a bit of "shushing" and head stroking.
I really don't know what is wrong - she doesn't appear ill (temp. normal, no cold); thought it might be teeth but she was fine yesterday; she goes down fine for her daytime sleeps and is happy and contented all day.
Any ideas please? Felt so stressed tonight as the only thing that stopped her crying was taking her into another room (dh phoned as he's away tonight, and I took her with me to answer the call and she sat with me while I spoke to him, calm as anything).