Since last Friday, Nina has been extremely unsettled. I believe most of it is due to teething as we can see the shape of 4 teeth coming through on her top gum, and she is chewing like mad on each side of her gums. But I'm thinking that it's also behavioural.
We have a bedtime ritual which we follow each night, and before last Friday, by 6.30pm she'd be in bed sound asleep and would either sleep through for 10-12 hours, or wake once, maybe twice in that period. But lately, we're lucky if she does go down at 6.30pm without screaming the house down, or she'll go to sleep for 2 or 3 hours, then wake up and scream the house down. When she wakes, we try various things, pain relief, bonjella, water, nappy, even more milk, but nothing is helping. She gets absolutely hysterical if we leave her, and both DH and I aren't willing to try controlled crying at this stage as a) we don't know a great deal about it, and b) she gets too upset, to the point of vomiting if left for a long period.
I've tried bringing her into our room, which doesn't even work. 2 nights ago she finally went to sleep at 11.30pm, only due to exhaustion, and last night slept for 14+ hours without stiring, probably due to exhaustion again.
During the day isn't much better either, she's very clingy with me, screams if I dare put her down. She's been a very independent baby up until now, and would always be happy to play on her own, lately I have to be physically holding her while playing.
Can anyone make any suggestions on what may be going on, and what I can do/try ??