7/8 months old miserable

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My almost 8m LG has always been really happy and smiley and content, a laid back baby. Since turning 7 months every day has been a battle. It felt like she had a horrendous personality switch overnight and it's just gotten worse and worse and worse. She is absolutely miserable grizzling and crying and whingeing 80% of the day, she's clearly frustrated at not being able to crawl or stand. You just can't do anything for her. No teething and had a decent drs check up, naps well balanced - just a really really miserable baby.

I miss my happy girl it's so much more bad than good right now I dread getting up in the morning and I hate that the best parts of the day are nap time, it didn't use to be like this.

Has this coincided with weaning? She could be suffering with silent reflux or excess wind on her tummy maybe? My daughter had silent reflux and she was grizzly and cried near enough constantly while awake.

If you give her some baby Calpol, does she feel better? What did the doctor suggest? I would think teething would be the obvious first guess?

Some weeks they are happy, content, loving life, and some weeks they just aren’t. They are phases, and they do pass. Likewise, some weeks you feel you’re absolutely killing it in motherhood and then the next week, you feel like you’re barely clinging on and everything is piling up around you. I have a toddler, slap bang in the middle of terrible twos. Some weeks she spends most of the day rolling around the floor having a paddy and screaming at me, others she is totally chill and the nicest little thing ever. Hang in there.

My baby is 8.5 months and he’s the same.
Can’t tell if it’s teething or separation anxiety, or anger that he can’t move

Definitely teething their gums can be sore for a while before teeth pop through

That’s exactly what we used to do, try a dose of Calpol and see if their mood improves.