DD has always been very strong willed and was a terrible sleeper as a baby. When she turned 1 she started sleeping through and I had a blissful year of sleeping 7/8 hours every night!
She recently turned 2 and had a really bad cough. She was coughing so much that she was nearly sick and I had to get with her maybe 8-10 times in the night, she was so miserable. Since then she seems to expect me to come and give her a cuddle whenever she wakes in the night. It has reduced now to usually 2/3 times a night and only takes 5 mins each time but she's also started refusing to go to sleep until 9/9.30.
She wriggles and squirms, tells me to go and then cries when I leave the room. I've had to leave her to cry a couple of times eg to do something in the kitchen or have a shower and she just screams and screams. Once she gets going she never calms down by herself. She's also refusing DH, won't hug him or let him dress her/change nappy etc and is very clingy to me in the day.
I think her last 2 molars are coming through so I have told myself that is what is going on. But I'm really at the end of my tether. I don't get any evening with DH, I'm up all night and DD is waking up DS who is 5.
Sorry its long. Any suggestions? She still has a nap for an hour/hour and a half after lunch and she's so shattered I don't think she's ready to drop it.