6 month old is suddenly miserable!!!

[L0ts]

Up until maybe a week a go I have had the most placid, happy and chilled baby in the world. I thought wow, a complete breath of fresh air compared to my first who was a nightmare until maybe 14 months and he could walk.

The last week he has seemingly undergone a complete personality transplant.. crying a lot, grumpy, moaning, his sleeping is AWFUL! Awake every 30-45 minutes at night, he maybe does an hour max. Screaming before naps, can’t really be put down, the lot.

He is nearing the end of leap 5 so is very much under that lightning bolt but my god, the other leaps had next to no effect on him. Even leap 4 which was an absolute monster when it came to my first. Drooling a lot, hands in mouth, all the classic signs of teething but no sign of them at all. Have given calpol, teething powders and they make no difference anyway.

Just a phase? Logic tells me of course it is but I just miss my sweet little cheerful baby boy 😩😩

Well... it was a very long phase for us.
My babygirl slept though from 12 weeks (yes, every single night!). From 6 months, it's stopped. Loads of night feeding, awake in every 30 minutes, needy, crying etc. She was also showing signs of teething but it took a long time for her first teeth to came out.
This got better after a few weeks, but went on an off until she was 13 months!

I would say this change is very normal, and hopefully won't last that long.
Is he taking dummy?

definitely sounds like onset of teething, if he is otherwise well.

Most likely teething.... from but unavoidable!

Other thing could be weaning - my eldest swallowed a LOT of air with good when she first started solids, and then had terrible wind a few hours later. That made her uncomfortable at night.

im going through the same thing at the moment, did your little one calm down?

Teething

@newmummypm YES!!! It did get better, almost as soon as the leap was over he was back to his regular cheery self! 😊

Hello Everyone,
sorry for the extremely long post.
I hope you and your little ones are doing well. I’m a new mom to a 6-month-old baby girl, and to be honest, I’m really struggling. It’s taking everything in me to stay positive right now.
Everything we’ve tried with her has been met with resistance. She refused to sleep in her cot and still co-sleeps with us. She’s never slept through the night—two hours is the longest stretch she’ll sleep, and then she wakes up needing to nurse to fall back asleep. She’s exclusively breastfed, which was manageable until she hit her 4-month sleep regression. Now, she wakes every 2 hours (sometimes every 30 minutes) at night, needing to nurse to soothe herself.
When we first started giving her baths, she cried through the whole thing. She didn’t take to the car seat or stroller either and would howl whenever we tried to use them, though we kept at it. She won’t sit in a restaurant, no matter how carefully we try to plan around her schedule. We started her in swimming classes over two months ago, and she still cries every single time. She’s the only baby in both classes who does this, and I can’t help but feel embarrassed.
She also won’t let me leave the room without crying for me. She’s happy to play with her dad, but only if I’m nearby. I understand that I’m her main caregiver, but it means I can’t even shower or wash my hair without her getting upset. She doesn’t like sitting in her chair to play, so I end up carrying her around while trying to get my chores done. And even then, she still cries often.
I haven’t slept properly in six months. I’ve been telling myself this is just a phase and that she finds comfort in me, but I’m reaching my breaking point. I just want her to stop crying and to be happy. When I see other babies at classes, restaurants, or with friends, none of them seem to cry like this. It’s hard not to compare, and I feel so defeated.
Is it too much to ask for her to just be happy and content?

@EPS007 So sorry, this sounds so tough. I will say though it sounds IDENTICAL to what my brother and sister in law went through with their daughter. She was a horror, I mean she was of course beautiful and adorable but they really were driven insane by her.

She cried night and day, poor sleeper, acid reflux, bad eczema, had to be bounced and walked around all day long. She is now 2 and a half and an absolute JOY of a toddler. Such a little character, a little chatterbox and a complete pleasure to be around. I think she really got a lot better by the time she was 18 months old.

She was also obsessed with her mum like you’ve mentioned with your daughter. She honestly could never leave a room without her screaming despite being left with other adults she knew very, very well including her own dad.

I know that sounds a long time away, and I’m not saying it will be the same with your daughter but more that even though you’re going through this now and you’ve probably got concerns and worries over why she is the way she is, it WILL end and it WILL get better.

My son who I wrote about here was the opposite, he was such an easy baby, quite placid for the most part and my brother and sister in law envied me. As he’s turned in to a toddler he is now incredibly hard work!

@L0ts im so sorry to have posted on your thread. I’m fairly new at this. But it is very kind of you to hear me out and write back. Thank you so much. Truly appreciate it. I hope the easy phase comes sooner than later. I wish you alll the luck and love with your son!

@EPS007 have you had any improvement? My daughter is nearly 7 months and the same x