Anyone else got a really unhappy toddler? I'm at my wits end. My 18m old has always been a fussy baby. From the moment he was born he screams in the car, in the pram and spent the majority of 0-6 months screaming. Now at 1 and a half he's still very unhappy a lot of the time. In a day he spends more time crying than content, its like his default is to be unhappy. Still cries in the car and pram.
He's developmentally completely normal and met all milestones, he has above average speech for his age and communicates/ gives eye contact well.
I just feel like I'm failing him, I'm so desperate for him to just be content. SO DESPERATE. We spend a lot of time outside, he loves animals and he's a good eater but still cries a lot when in the high chair. We spend a lot of time with other toddlers around the same age and he is ALWAYS the most miserable, obviously the other kids have their moments, but he is always always always crying the most, having the most meltdowns and just screams for what seems no reason. I'm finding motherhood so shitty because I seem to spend my whole life trying to please him and do nice things with him and he just screams. It's not a phase because he's been like it since the moment he was born. Me and my husband both work full time in demanding shift work jobs and we have no family within 4 hours drive so he goes to nursery a few days. The nursery usually contact us saying he won't stop crying and is really clingy and upset all day (which is really unhelpful when we're both at work).
I suppose I'm just looking for advice/ helpful stories or ideas. I see all these people loving motherhood and their lovely little babies sat in a pram without a care in the world and I'm so desperate for that for us, I find it so hard to enjoy anything when he's with me because he is so unhappy 😩