Please can someone give me some advice or reassurance.
DS has always been difficult. Awful colic and reflux until about 6 months. Struggled with feeding and sleeping for most of his first year.
He gets easily frustrated and seems very highly strung and on a short fuse. It sometimes feels he just cries and whines all day long. Anything and everything can set him off. Cried and whined for 30 minutes today because he couldn’t see the moon (it was daytime). 20 minutes later he had the smallest trip possible over a sign, barely landed before DH caught him. Queue another hour of crying and whining. Tried to do some block stacking before lunch. He couldn’t do it = 30 more mins of whining. At lunch time, realised there was some carrot in the coleslaw he usually likes with his jacket potato. Another 30 mins of whining. Sometimes (often) he whines and cries for no apparent reason. More often than not, he’s fine out of the house (although, sometimes not). The whining seems to be particularly bad in the house.
I’m just finding him so suffocating. Alongside the whining he’s incredibly clingy. If something upsets or annoys him it’s ‘mama mama mama’ otherwise we get full blown screaming. He just wants me to carry him round, soothing him all day. At 13kg though, this is impossible. If I try and ignore the behaviour/him, he will attempt to physically hurt himself by banging his head into the wall/floor.
Does this get better? Is there ANYTHING I can do, or do I just need to wait it out, like the awful baby days? Thanks.