I'm struggling so much with this at the moment.
12 mo is going through a really tough phase at the moment. I know some of it is likely down to separation anxiety but it doesn't explain the rest. Below is the current situation.
He stirs often at night and can be hard to settle. He cries sitting on my lap after a few minutes. Cries when I put him down. Cries when having a nappy change, getting dressed and sometimes in the bath. Often cries during walks. He cries in his highchair and this starts if I don't give him food within 10 seconds. He'll then refuse food once he's started crying. Sometimrs cies when going off for naps. Cries when he wakes up from naps. I play with him lots which will distract him for a maximum of 5 minutes before he whinges again. I just shut a door to stop him going into the toilet and he screamed at me in a real fury. Cries when he falls onto his bottom when walking (he's not hurt himself.)
I am exhausted and feel physically ill at times from the stress of it. I can honestly say that he has probably cried almost every minute of today so far. I dread weekends when he is like it.
It's impacting on the relationship with my older child as I have so little time to spend with him and baby cries as soon as older child comes near me. I also (wrongly) am often zapped of patience when it comes to parenting older one.
He isn't always as bad as outlined above and goes through good phases where he is lovely. This is an exceptionally bad one but bad phases happen often. I sometimes blame teething but think it happens too often to be that.
Any advice? I've spoken to the Health Visitors who were unconcerned. I'm thinking of getting him checked out by a GP too.
DH does his fair share but gets drained by it too. I'm not long back at work so do get 'a break' during the week.