Oh dear, it does look like I might bite the bullet and try and sleep train Z again. She's woken up in the night for at least the last 3 nights in a row and I think I am going to try to break the habit. She's been demanding "out" and "daddy" whenever I go in and I have been taking her out of the cot, telling her it's time to sleep and sitting down and giving her a breastfeed having told her she's going back in the cot afterwards. She hasn't fussed about going back in the cot once she's had her feed so that's something, I suppose.
I am trying to decide whether my strategy should be not to take her out of the cot at all and just talk soothingly and tell her it's time to go asleep or to do it one step at a time - out of the cot but no feed tonight and see how that goes and then not take her out of the cot if she is still waking after that. Hmm...if I don't take her out of the cot, I am pretty sure there will be loud protests but it might be better to just go for it since I imagine she would protest at not being given a feed once she has been taken out of the cot. Gah.
With a bit of luck, she'll sleep through perfectly tonight and no training will be necessary but I'm not holding my breath!
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