What a week! Have had some small successes but still at a loss about some things.
She does seem to be teething and she's doing the exact same scared, jumping, burying into me thing that Liz mentioned but Bonjela doesn't seem to relieve her enough to stop that. She has stopped waking in the middle of the night for the last couple of nights which is fantastic but she still won't go down to bed easily. She will still fall asleep in my arms around 6pm but is so sensitive to movement she will wake up when I put her in the cot and cry. I've tried lying down on the floor next to the cot and "talking" her to sleep (says a lot for my conversation cos she drops off right away!) but as soon as I move to get up off the floor she knows and starts crying again. It took two hours of repeating this last night until I gave up and she ended up staying up til 9 pm and my husband then went and put her down to sleep with no problem (>_<)grrr...
So there certainly seems to be an element of separation anxiety in there. I thought we'd escaped it as I thought it happened earlier, around 6~9 months. Only happening at night though - she's fine through the day. NIght light hasn't helped - just made it easier for her to see me creep out the door! (^-^)
I'm crossing my fingers that it's just a phase and it'll end before I tear all my hair out. She's such a monkey - after 2 hours of trying to get her to sleep, when I gave up and brought her out of her room she gave me a big giggle and a kiss which just melts all the frustration and I wonder why I went through all the drama when I could have just kept her up later and we'd both have been happier!
Aaahh!