I'm finding my baby so difficult. She wants to be held ALL the time, if I put her down at all, she's screaming crying before her bum touches the cot/playmat. I am bf & I hold her most of the day, she's carried in a sling alot of the time, I cook, clean, eat with her carried but my back is breaking now & I'm just tired of this. I can only manage to leave the house if I'm super organised the night before, otherwise Im trying to get ready to go out with her screaming crying, which usually ends in me crying too, and then I don't end up going out. I've just had another hellish morning & I don't believe in 'cry it out', but I was just out of energy this morning & let her cry, coming back every 15 minutes to soothe her & then just had to walk away. I'm just so tired, I'm a lone parent & have very little help. She will only sleep during the day if she's held. I just feel like I'm cracking at this point, Im behind on everything & when I get a few minutes to myself where I could be doing something productive, I feel overwhelmed to actually do anything.
She has eczema, which takes alot of work, bathing every day, moisturising 3 times a day - she screams through most of it. I've cut out dairy from my diet which seems to be helping. She scratches alot & I can't get her nails cut because I have to wait until shes asleep & if I attempt to go near her hand she wakes up. Ive had her seen by a cranial osteopath incase she had some physical pain after a difficult birth - there was no difference. I always get her wind up & give dentinox if I think its that. If I think her teeth are at her I put bonjella.... i'm just OUT of ideas what more I can do.
Any advice?? Does this get easier??