Our daughter is 15 months and after sleeping through beautifully since 4 months (excluding a few nights of teething) we've been confronted with Grumpy baby!
She's had a fair amount of upheaval in the past few weeks; at the start of December she had a nasty cold, then mid december we got married and she stayed with her grandparents for 3 nights while we were away, the two weeks leading up to Christmas was a struggle with her waking nightly but through controlled crying (5 mins, then 10, then 15...) she started getting herself back off to sleep; then came christmas and since then we've had all out tantrums from 2am that last anything up to 3 hours when my husband finnally gives in and cuddles her to sleep in her room with a bottle. In addition to all this upheaval, I am 24 weeks prenant with her sister and she's obviously picked up that something is going on.
I know she doesn't need a bottle during the night - her nappies are wet when she wakes without one (bottle, not nappy that is!) and she is eating well during the day. As a general rule we've practiced the EASY method with her since 3 months and used controlled crying.
Unfortunately we are now left with a tired, tantrummy child; tired, grumpy daddy and exhausted, tearful mummy currently writing with said tired child having climbed up for a cuddle, fallen asleep 2 hours before her usual nap! Any help / suggestions / offers of sleep welcome!
