The problem is, she's in full blown tears mode before she's even really awake. That's what made me question if babies can have bad dreams, as she seems so upset before she's even realised she's fully awake. And it's also happened when she's been asleep on me before - ie she's been happily asleep on my shoulder, and wakes up crying. And also the not letting me put her back down after it happens also makes me wonder if its bad dreams... it's like she's too scared to go back on her own.

She's quiet ok with her cot too - she spends half an hour or more, twice a day at least in there with no nappy on just kicking around. Chewing on her toys, looking into the mirror, rolling every which way from Sunday etc.

This only seems to be happening during the day time too. At night she sometimes stirs and goes back to sleep on her own fine. The good thing though is that we seem to have broken (for now, touching wood) the 45 minute to the dot waking that was happening in my first post. Yesterday she was down for an hour before it happened, Saturday was an hour and a half...