I don't know what to do with my little girl. For the past week, every night between 5 and 6 she goes from being really sunny and happy to having a screaming fit in the space of about five minutes. We don't think it's a tiredness issue as she has either one long (2h+) or two reasonable (1h or so) naps every day and doesn't rub her eyes, yawn etc until close to bedtime (about 7:30pm). She does show some teething signs - drooling, clutching her ears and jaw, pulling her hair (she has 8 teeth already so we know the signs), and does seem to get better if we give her some Calpol. The trouble is we can't keep on giving her Calpol every day! As I say it's been about a week and there's no obvious signs of any new teeth breaking through. This is making evenings, dinnertimes, bathtimes really difficult - oddly bedtimes she happily goes straight to sleep and then sleeps through for a good 12 hours, generally without even making any stirring noises in her sleep.
What I don't get, if it's teething, is that it's every day, day after day - is that normal? Her previous teeth have come through after a couple of days, but they were all incisors, maybe these are different. It's also really strange that it's only ever at a particular time.
Is this just a phase? I know she's also frustrated about trying to walk and not quite being able to, but again, why only get grumpy at a certain time? We're tearing our hair out with this as it's draining all the life out of us - we dread it all day and then when she's in bed we're just too miserable and sorry for her to really enjoy the evening. Aside from that, we're worried about her, and what we're going to do as like I say, I don't think we should keep giving her Calpol.
Grateful for any advice on this :)