I don't know if she's in pain?!

[Mumwithrum]

My LO is 15 weeks old.

Over the past week she's been incredibly fussy and won't stop crying. She seems to be in pain with absolute hysterical screaming, but it's not all the time.

She woke up at 8am today, and was fine until about 11am and hasn't stopped crying since. She'll cry until bed time. My partner thinks she's in pain, and suggested giving her some Calpol, and she has calmed down, which suggests she is in pain... The problem is, I don't know where or what's wrong with her!!

She's chewing hands a lot and dribbling so much, but apart from that there's nothing to suggest she's teething. I think she has a CMPA but no one is taking me seriously, could it be tummy ache? How do I help her when the GPs at my surgery won't take me seriously?

Do babies get growing pains?

FTM pulling my hair out and convinced something is seriously wrong.

Teething, if the calpol helps, keep it up. There is a lot of movement going on before the teeth erupt.

I have a 13 week old and usually when pain it's gas related (this is my 3rd baby) my 2nd had horrendous colic until he was 6 months old, he couldn't digest lactose properly and was in lots of pain. Colief was the only thing that helped. Alongside gas drops to get stubborn gas out.

If she's chewing her fists and dribbling a lot I would lean towards teething, even if you can't see the tooth coming through.

Simple things to try would be a dose of calpol or some teething powder/gel. If she soothes then she's feeling pain in her gums.

Then you can try keeping a teething toy in the fridge or a clean damp cloth in the freezer, so she's got something to chew on which often helps.

Is she ff or bf? What makes you think she has cmpa?

Chewing hands and drooling are classic signs of teething. Her soothing after calpol also suggests pain.

I'd be presuming teething.

My 14 week DD has been like this on and off this week, also drooling and chewing her hands a lot. Someone suggested Teething to us too so used some Teething gel and it calmed her right down so I think they were right (or it was a coincidence)

:)