Hi, your opinion please. My DS2 is now 14 months and was successfully sleep trained using the Controlled Crying method just over a month ago. After 7 bliss filled nights of having him sleep through consistently for the first time in his life he developed an ear infection and surprise, surprise his good sleep pattern was back out of the window. Since then he has vehemently fought against putting himself back to sleep and is back to shouting for us from his cot 2 to 3 times a night. He has always been an affectionate child and has learnt the word ?cuddle?, he demands a ?cuddle? however about 100 times a day and every time he wakes in the night. It?s so difficult, in the middle of cooking, responding to DS1?s needs, going for a wee all accompanied by ?cuddle? with little arms outstretched and if you do not respond straight away and I mean literally a tantrum swiftly follows. He will and does cuddle every Tom, Dick and Harry, patients in the doctors waiting room, other mothers at toddler groups, the post man if I?d let him. My husband says he heard that a child who consistently asks for cuddles from anyone and everyone is a child starved of affection, it?s playing on my mind, what do you think? Any similar experiences, does it go hand in hand with needing a sleep prop?