Sleep training question

Kate

My 9 month old has been a great sleeper up till now. We've never had to do much and she learned to self soothe and slept 12 hours for months.. Now since she's learned to stand and cruise she is waking somewhere between 1am and 4am, wide awake, babbling, walking around her crib, eventually crying for us to come get her out.. We've tried giving her a bottle and rocking her to sleep but she gets super pissed and it's been taking up to 3 hours to get her back to sleep. We are dreading going to sleep now 😭😭😭 after a whole week of this I decided we need to do something else, and we tried letting her cry it out last night. I stayed in her room and would lay her down after 3 mins, then 5 mins, then 10 mins but she was so upset.. Like crying so hard she was choking on her own spit. I gave in after about 15 mins and rocked her to sleep. Is it normal for them to be crying so hard like that!?!?