We think it is teething related because she keeps chewing her dummy and refusing it, and chewing her hands, and drooling. Last night Nurofen seemed to help but nothing else and so far tonight that doesn't seem to have made any difference either. What are we meant to do? Just hold her til she exhausts herself from screaming? That's basically what we keep having to do as nothing seems to be helping her, she's totally hysterical on and off.
I am really struggling with this mentally because she was like this most of the time between the ages of 2 weeks and 7 months. I am back at work now and whilst will struggle with the lack of sleep tomorrow assuming tonight is as bad or worse as last night, I am having flashbacks to the many days of my maternity leave spent pacing up and down my living room with a baby screaming over my shoulder for upwards of 2 hours at a time for no discernible reason, napping for 30 minutes, and then waking up and continuing, for days and days in a row. I feel like we have all just regressed back to that even though she'd been doing so much better over the last 3 months. I think it is teething now, but then we thought it was teething sometimes then and she only got her first two teeth coming through over the last few weeks, so it probably wasn't teething when she was like 3 months old. She has a paeds referral as the GP is a bit concerned, she was referred at 7 months old but the waiting list is so long that she will be about to turn 1 by the time of the appointment. I optimistically thought maybe she'd have grown out of this behaviour by then but nope 
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What do other people do with unconsolable babies? I know some other people who talk about their babies being like this as newborns but not still being like this at 10 months .