Hi,
My little girl has always been a fairly good sleeper and has generally napped well and gone down well at night. She's had the same bedtime routine since she was about 6 weeks old, although now she's older we added reading a book. For daytime naps, she is now at the point where I can put her down and walk out the room and even if she fusses a bit, she settles herself and sleeps well. This was the case at night too until the last 3 nights. I'm not sure if it is teething or separation anxiety?? Last night I went to put her down at 7pm and she just screamed, no fussing, just full on screaming before I'd got to the door. Even when I patted and rubbed her she continued to scream and only settled when I sang to her. But, when I stopped and went to leave the room she would ping awake again and the screaming would start again. After 1 1/2 hours of this I gave her some calpol and then she finally fell asleep on my chest and I transferred her to her cot. She slept until midnight and then woke and screamed instantly again and would not calm down with patting etc. I had to cuddle her to sleep again. I was so tired I fell asleep too and when I woke at 5am, I tried to put her sleeping back into her cot. I got back into my own bed and 5 mins later she was screaming again so we ended up back in bed together again. Her gums look very ready for teeth but she hasn't got any teeth as yet and I don't know how you tell whether they are actually teething or not? I'm not sure what I should do as I hate using lots of calpol. I tried the teetha granules but they don't seem to help. She just went down for her morning nap with a bit of fussing but otherwise ok. Any ideas what it could be or if I'm doing something wrong. Is it likely to be a phase and go away? Just it's very difficult to deal with as I can't cook our supper as it takes so long to settle her and poor DH comes home to screaming.