7 month baby unhappy

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Hello ladies
I’m just looking for some advice and help !
my LO is nearly 7 months and is constantly grumpy / unhappy/ unsettled nothing makes her happy apart from being walked around, very rarely has days where she doesn’t scream pretty much 80% of the day she won’t even play with her toys sometimes just screams. Screams when I’m trying to feed her but then waffles her milk down eventually after nearly a hour
she takes AGES to settle for daytime naps and evenings. She needs rocking and shusshing and even feeding to sleep, always screams before every sleep!
is she normal?
no deal teething signs
no sign of illness or sickess
she is just so unhappy when we are at home especially!
if I take her out she’s happy being out and getting sensory stimulation.
as soon as I get home the screaming starts, I’m really mentally drained, my husband says she is not that’s bad but he is not with her 24/7 . I do get a break from her and husband is very helpful.
i guess I just want to know if anyone else can relate? Is this a phase maybe a developmental leap? I just feel at my wits end and so stressed
thanks for reading x

I had a crier and I sympathise. With my DS it turned out that he had Tongue Tie.

I must say though that feeding to sleep and patting are very normal at this age.

Around half of 1 year olds still need their parents to help them get back to sleep. There's some more on normal infant sleep here.

I don't know how big she is but I found that popping mine in a big stretchy wrap whilst I got on with things like cooking the dinner helped.

And if she's on formula, have you tried swapping to a comfort version?

@Sb199568899 I’m sorry to hear you are having a difficult time. I could have written most of your post. DD (now 18m) was very unhappy at home. Fine when we went out to a playgroup/class but cried all the time at home. I still don’t know why. I kept thinking oh maybe when she can sit up and play she’ll be happier, when she can roll around she’ll be happier, when she can eat solids (in case it was gut related - it wasn’t and she also refused to eat food for 2 months), when she can crawl, when she can walk she’ll be happier. None of it made a difference. I would say she got a little bit happier at home around 10months, but it was still hit and miss. And only in the last month can I say she seems happy most of the time (with some periods of up and down in between).
She also screamed before 95% of naps, and she’d only nap for 30min so we’d have 20min of screaming for a 30min nap (contact nap/pram/cot). She stopped screaming before sleep at 11 months.
One day DH and I both got a sickness bug and couldn’t move and I laid on the floor with her and she just cried the whole day.

Things I did - made sure I got out of the house every day. I walked to classes so it took the whole morning. In general I went for a lot of walks. More than an hour awake time in the house, I went out.
Then just sharing the load with my husband - tag teaming to get anything done. Mainly just trying to enjoy the good bits. And they did increase gradually over time.

I’m sure you will see some improvement in time, but sorry it’s so tough now