Poor You! It must be the name coz my little Monster went through a stage a while ago that was similar.

We went and saw the Plunket nurse (NZ's brilliant MCHN service) and She said to try giving Hannah water instead of milk coz she may have learnt that if she wakes in the nightime it results in a nice warm bottle and lots of cuddles from Mum. The first time I did that the looks she gave me was priceless - "what are you giving me Woman" is a pretty good translation. That worked for a couple of nights and then we were back to waking.

The second trip to PLunket they recommended either the controlled crying or just letting her cry for up to 3 hours (the preferred method) to teach her not to expect Mum to come in. It was awful, truly the most horrible thing I have done. I spent the 2 hours she spent crying sitting outside her bedroom door feeling like the worst Mum in the world. The next night she cried for 1.5 hours and after that we have had nothing. She wakes in the night but we hear her having a little chat, playing with her bear and then she gets herself back to sleep.

It was incredibly hard but apparently it is proven to work. I would not have been able to go through with this without my Hubby's support coz I would have crumbled at her first cry!

Good luck