She could be teething, it's been fairly constant so far. She has 6 teeth 9.5 months, which seems a lot to me? C only had 2 at this point.
We used to settle NWs by patting / bouncing her bum but it was taking longer and longer and we were having to get her all the way back asleep rather than just calming her otherwise it all just started again. This is where DH and I are differing now, as I'm not prepared to spend 2hrs bending over her cot every time she wakes up. It's back breaking and its not achieving much anyway. I want to get back to her resettling herself at night, so I've been letting her know I'm there, hand on the back but no bouncing, and then lying on her floor and trying to use my voice to soothe her. I can't say as that's been working either but DH doesn't give me the chance. Because she's still been crying with me in there (and she's loud) he thinks it's pointless and I'm just lying there doing nothing. Whereas I'm thinking she may be crying but she's not alone and at some point she will go back to sleep without all the intervention. He's not too open to that at 3am though, and last night he came in and started patting her (literally standing over me!). It doesn't get her to sleep for ages but it does keep her quiet. Anyway I left him to it, there is zero point in me being there if he's going to do his thing regardless. So now he's in a strop because he was in there for hours and had to go to work this morning, I was in our bed nice and comfy and he's the one who got left to deal with her. Whatever.
Not sure about SA, she doesn't get left to cry, doesn't seem too bothered during the day and she knows we're there at night and she still doesn't settle. Last night could've been OT as she had a rubbish day, but at the same time it's not like these NWs are unusual yk? Although she's never had 2 long ones in one night before so that was fun. Yesterday was WU 7:30, nap 10:30-11, nap 2-2:40 (DH woke her banging around so this is all his fault anyway lol), BT 7. I didn't want to do BT earlier even though she would've gone easily because of her EWs, she doesn't seem to tack on.
This morning she was up at 7, perfectly happy, full of beans after 8hrs broken sleep. And DD1 I woke at 8 after a full 12hrs. Was two great sleepers really too much to ask?!