DD has never been a good sleeper. She was rocked or fed to sleep until around five months when we very gently taught her to go to sleep on her own in her cot without crying (it was a bit like shh pat and gradual retreat) but I just sat next to her and then about a week ago she seemed ready to go to sleep by herself so I had started leaving the room and she would play with her toys and then curl up and go to sleep beautifully (though still woke a couple of times in night to feed)
Then last night she got woken up a couple of times by people knocking ( 😡 ) and since then she's become absolutely hysterical when I put her in her cot, both last night afterwards, for both naps today and this evening. It's like she associates the cot with not being able to sleep and she hurls herself around it screaming even with me sitting next to her.
I've just managed to sing her to sleep (she went down early because she was so overtired after problems earlier) and I've checked nothing is bothering her
Help! For medical reasons we actually need to predict her sleep patterns pretty accurately by next week and I feel like we've suddenly regressed - will it pass soon?