I thought we had successfully night weaned a couple of weeks ago, only to have her wake-ups get earlier and earlier and i could no longer say we night weaned her! She would sleep from 7:30-5am, nurse for 30 minutes and then go back down until 8:30am.

We attempted night weaning again, this time with DH going in to comfort her and putting her back down. It seems to have worked because she'll now wake up around 6-6:15am (we put her to sleep around 7:15-7:30pm). The only problem is that she wakes up crying really hard and i let her cry until 6:30am because that is the earliest i will allow for her day to start. It's been like this for the last 2 days.

Could it be that she's crying because she hasn't gotten enough sleep? Is it related to separation anxiety? Any advice on what to do? LO is 8.5 months now.