I've had such a good sleeper for 9 months, with the odd night here or there where he would wake (generally he was hungry and would go back down after a quick feed). Recently he went through a phase of not settling first off, we seem to have cracked this bit. But at the moment he keeps waking up in the night, generally wants to see me and to keep me next to his cot before he nods off again (which I've found myself doing some ninja moves to get out the room so he wouldn't see me leaving). Any idea why he's suddenly doing this and how I can help him soothe himself without me having to go in every night?
I don't want to get into bad habits of him knowing I'll be going in every time he wakes up, but I'm wondering if this is that separation anxiety in that he needs to know I'll go to him?
Any advice would be hugely appreciated!