My baby has always been a crier. It settled down a lot when we started giving regular Infacol a few weeks ago so we figured she was having colic/gastro pain. She became much happier and had proper naps in the daytime and had always been a pretty good sleeper at night, sleeping about 10.30pm-7am ish most nights from being about 8 or 9 weeks old.
The last week or so this has all gone to pot and she just whinges and cries from the moment she wakes up until the moment she goes to bed and doesn't do more than like 3 30/40 minute naps each day, and is generally sleeping midnight til 4am ish and then waking every 20 mins or so but settles with her dummy but then spits it out until about 6/7/8am so we are up and out of bed constantly, when she wakes up properly for her breakfast bottle. Family members think she is teething as she has all the symptoms and DH said her gums feel bumpy. Anbesol doesn't seem to be helping at all and Calpol seems to have reduced the proper full-on screaming fits but she still whinges all the time she is awake. She also isn't drinking her milk properly either - HV saw her and told us to take her to the GP on Tuesday who couldn't find anything wrong with her but have asked us to take her back in again this morning for another check 
. I'm assuming she's just in pain with the teething and will settle back down again?? But it's taking a huge toll on my mental health. I feel like I can't take her out anywhere as she will just whinge and cry and not even take her bottle properly, it's such a battle feeding her. I'm trapped indoors all day on my own while DH is at work, even getting out for a short 30 mins to the shops or a walk feels like such a huge task as I can't leave her alone at all when she's awake or she just screams, I usually have to use the first nap or two to do household chores so if I'm lucky I'll have a third nap to get washed and ready and she's usually woke up by that point and screams so I can't get out as I feel too self-conscious to take her our screaming especially as she's often hungry atm because she will only drink the odd oz of milk here and there. I just end up sitting at home with her all day and crying on and off all day and I barely have time to eat or shower or anything because I can't leave her alone or she screams the place down. I spend half the time just sitting with her sticking her dummy in her mouth over and over and over again while she spits it out over and over because it's the only way to stop her screaming. If I leave her without it she will scream the place down and I try and distract her with toys or whatever but that only works for like 60 secs then she's back to whinging and if she doesn't have her dummy she gets whingier and whingier and then cries and then full on screams. I feel so miserable all the time, I had an awful pregnancy with HG, then a traumatic assisted delivery which I still haven't fully physically recovered from and mentally I can't sleep at night properly due to reliving the birth all the time, and now I have a baby that just seems unhappy all the time in my company. She's much smilier with other people. Please tell me this will pass? I just feel like we are both so unhappy and that she just doesn't like me and would be much better without me. It's taken me ages to write this as I have to keep putting the dummy in her mouth over and over again and the last 60 secs or so I didn't bother and now she is properly crying.