Hello. My beautiful, amazing, desperately wanted and much loved baby daughter is a nutter. Total fuss bum. Stress head extraordinaire. She has basically been unhappy since birth and whines/moans/cries most of the day.
I have taken her to the doctor a million times and no one can find anything wrong with her. She does reflux but has always gained weight well. We tried giving her meds for a while but she spat them out. I do have a sense that she is physically uncomfortable/frustrated but can never pin point it.
She does have happy moments and smiles, giggles and enjoys some toys. But for about a millisecond at a time. It still feels like a huge achievement when we have a grizzle free hour. That is extremely rare.
She is in a routine and sleeps through. We have started solids which is going well. We do baby massage, go to baby groups, go swimming, read books, have quiet calm times and I sing nursery rhymes endlessly. I used to get 2 minutes of quiet by sticking on c beebies but now it's more like 20 seconds.
She is almost always angelic in public which on the one hand is great, but on the other drives me crazy because no one believes that she is a miserable cry baby 99% of the time at home.
Everyone said 'oh, she'll grow out of it at 3 months' but here we are at 6 months and I am actually desperate to go back to work (even though I'm not wild about my job) just so I can have a break. That makes me so sad - this should be such a special time.
Can anyone reassure me that she won't be a miserable sod her whole effing life? Is there anything that it could be that I haven't thought of? (Please don't mention teething! I know when she is teething and it's twice as bad as normal.)
Thanks
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6m old baby miserable since birth. Going insane.
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ProudlymadeinSA · 26/07/2015 19:01
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