Not sure what I want with this thread...reassurance that it will get better at some unknown point in the future? Sympathy? Recognition? I don't know. I am so miserable. Today has been particularly bad. Apart from 30 minutes Water Babies class this morning she has cried the whole entire day and had two 30 minute naps. She has spent the whole day with her dummy in her mouth as it's the only thing that makes the crying like intermittent crying and whinging rather than full-on hysterical screaming (I keep trying to take it off her but she just starts screaming). No idea what is wrong with her, as usual. She does this all the time. Nothing is making her stop whinging and crying other than dummy to some extent and Teletubbies worked for 3 episodes then stopped. We have tried toys, walks in the pram, cuddles, walking about with her, Calpol, Dentinox, music, books...sometimes something works for 5 minutes and then she goes back to crying and whinging again. She is like this all the time as well, it's not a one off. After 8 months of it I am so broken. Everyone said when she was like 8 weeks old she would outgrow it. We are months and months in and she's no better. She is starting nursery on Monday and im worried she will just be left to cry all the time on her own as obviously one nursery nurse has 3 kids to look after. And she cries anyway so lots of the time I don't know why I bother, she just ignores me and cries. She has seen GP umpteen times, our HV is just completely AWOL and not helping us at all, GP referred her to paed but we can't get an appt until June, just before her 1st birthday. At least I will be back at work in a couple of weeks to get some peace but I am just so sad anyway that she is so unhappy all the time and spends all day with a bloody dummy in her mouth staring aimlessly at the telly rather than doing anything enriching or fun but nothing else makes her stop crying, what am I supposed to do?