6-month old suddenly much more demanding/cranky- help!

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I'd love to know what others have experienced here. My son is just shy of 6 months and generally very sweet tempered, but in the last 2 weeks has suddenly been much more fussy and cranky. He seems to require non-stop stimulation and gets fussy again after 5-15 minutes of something? This is a huge change and coincides with him biting me through a few feeds to leave me feeling a bit blue...hoping this is all normal development but makes for some loooong days. Any tips?

Teething perhaps? Are his nappies worse? Chomping on everything or anything?

My DS has been like this for a few weeks now and he's just 5 months old. It is very tiring as I run out of things to do to amuse him! Some days are worse than others though and on the whole he's very good-natured. I have just bought a wrap sling and he loves being in that. Although my hips are complaining today after being out with him in it for 4 hours!

I also try and take him out for a walk every day for an hour or so in his pushchair (I do food shopping as I need it so am out most days) and that tends to break the day up a bit. And I was going to a group every week until last week but I've now found a breastfeeding group that runs every fortnight which I'm going to attend and there's a Mum and Baby group in my local library every fortnight that I will try as well.

Some days I just want to stay in but it's harder work doing that than going out some days!

I am just thankful that he sleeps well when he eventually goes down for the night otherwise I would be tearing my hair out by now.

Of course, one of the next stages is them becoming mobile and that should keep them occupied as well as us chasing after them!

Definitely teething though hard to know how that is impacting mood. His first two teethe came in about a month ago but the top ones are taking a while to come through sadly for him.

You can try the teething powders (boots do them). They are homeopathic and should help to calm him down.

Otherwise its giving him things to chomp on. I use the teething rings from the fridge.

It just hurts I think! Hope he is OK soon.

Cd be separation anxiety at 6 months. Lots of cuddles and he should improve

This sounds excatly like my DD. Really grizzly and clingy. If it's just developmental, how long does it usually last??