DD2 has had 2 big sleep regressions since been born. From 4.5 weeks she slept through the night, woke up at around 5-6am for a feed and then back to sleep for a couple more hours. Good day sleeper too. She has pretty much always gone down around 7pm for the night

At 5.5 months she started waking every hour or so from about 11:30pm this lasted a few weeks maybe a month. In this time we ditched the dummy, visited an osteopath and started putting her down on her tummy to sleep. She has been going really great with only 1 night wake and still the early morning feed.

Now just before she hit 11 months she is doing it again but more like every 20-30 minutes from about midnight.

Now, DD2 is a real mummies girl. She has come out of her shell alot lately but she would cry if someone came up to her in a shopping centre and talked to her. Did not like going to anyone but me, including DH. It was only in the last month that she has gotten excited when DH comes home from work, but when she is upset she wants me and me only. DH can not settle her at night.

In saying that both these regressions have happened when DH has gone OS for 4 weeks.

Do you think this is just co incidence or could she actually be missing her daddy and in her way having seperation issues? I just did not think she was that aware of DH.

I will add, when DH is here he works 5 days a week plus every 2nd weekend and has dog traing every other saturday, so we really only get 2 full days a month as a family so it is not like he is always here when he is IYKWIM.

Sorry about the long winded post, I just need some other people to bounce my thoughts off.