Dd won't stop crying

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Dd is 10mo and for the last 4 nights she's been starting to cry and then scream after about 2 hours sleep. She's not awake but she is really crying and throwing herself back whilst she's in my arms. She'll be like this for 2-3 hours then eventually she'll stop but she has to stay in my arms with white noise playing. I've tried to wake her out of it a couple of times but that just makes it worse so me and dh just take turns cuddling and shh-ing her until she settles down. She'll wake up at 5-5.30am and will cry because she's still tired but I can't get her back down so I just lay in bed singing to her to soothe her. Then we get up about 6.30ish. Then during the day she's just so miserable (this has been going on for about 2weeks) she's at that stage where she doesn't like me walking away but it's getting to the point where all I have to do I stand up and she'll start screaming. If I leave her she gets into such a state where she chokes herself. If I have her in my arms she's happy for about 5 mins then will struggle to get down but will cry when I put her down. It's like this all day, nothing is right and she just cries. There must be only 2ish hours a day where she's awake and happy.
I'm so sorry for the long post and thank you if you've read the whole thing! Does anyone have any experience of this? Is there anything I can do or do we just need to ride it out? I'm slowly starting to go insane

I would take her to the GP as she maybe unwell.

For tonight give pain medication and if you don’t already try Co-sleeping.

Sounds typical of ear infection.
The pain eases when they are upright but lying flat is torture.

If there is nothing physically wrong (take her to the GP to make sure) it sounds like night terrors. DD suffered from around 10 months where she'd be screaming but asleep and crying, now she's almost 3 and when she has one she will be calling out for me even if I'm holding her, like she isn't aware I'm there at all. The best advice we had was to disturb her slightly before they start. Hers always started between 12 and 1am, so I'd go in around 11.45 and move her slightly to disturb her sleep but not wake her. That tended to stop the terror by changing the cycle of sleep she was in.

My lo had night terrors, we were told not to touch her, just make sure she didn't fall off the bed. Lavender bubble bath helped a bit but didn't last long. I feel your pain

This sounded like ear infection to me too.

Have you tried any painkillers?

ear infection or night terrors. Would go to GP to rule out the former and then look into the best way to cope with the latter

Was going to suggest ear infection too x

Ears. GP asap. Meanwhile calpol and nurofen.

I hadn't even thought of anything like that and now I feel like the worst Mum I've been giving her calpol before bed anyway. I'll call the gp for an appointment first thing. She's always woken up crying a little in the middle of the night and I have to settle her so think they are night terrors but its only once and it's nothing compared to now. Thank you so much everyone.

The worst mum wouldn't be here asking for advice.

Some of us have just had babies a few times and have learnt the hard lessons.

So doctor has said there's no infection and she's physically really healthy and that it could be teething. At least she's not unwell in anyway but now I'll just have to work out how to cope with this. Poor thing.

@Handsoffmysweets I'd never heard of that, thank you.

Have you tried the sleep clinic at your children's centre?