I've posted with a similar issue before but the phase seemed to pass but for the last 2 weeks has come back with a VENGENCE!
My DS is NEVER happy or content.
We will get 1 minute here, 5 minutes there, usually when you distract him with walking around, singing, a bread stick/rusk snack, or the odd bit of screen time but cannot and will not remain content and happy without any sort of intervention.
It's a constant heerrr, heerrr sound when he's bored of playing with a toy he's had in his hand for literally 5 seconds until you distract him with something else. Which doesn't always work.
When you do something he likes, you'll get a big smile and a laugh, then his face screws up and instantly starts whinging.
If there's no distraction to stop him whinging, it will just escalate to a full-blown meltdown. This has happened a few times when out of the house, which is just horrible.
On top of this, he's suddenly become very irregular with his bottle feeding (maybe because he's now taking solids)? But a couple of times he's gone for hours refusing to take a bottle, so it's very hard to work out if he may be hungry or not.
I keep flipping from thinking he may be in pain somehow, to thinking it's just a phase/developmental thing and he just gets bored easily, to then sometimes really worrying it may be something more severe (ASD)???
He doesn't crawl, and in honesty is nowhere near it as he cannot stand 10 seconds of tummy time. We've given up thinking he will crawl, to just expecting him to go straight to walking as he constantly wants to be stood up.
I don't think he's teething. There's no inflammation in the gums, no excess drooling or flushed cheek. He still hasn't cut any teeth yet.
I am very tempted to go to A&E tomorrow to get some sort of professional assessment as this is just not a sustainable way to live. Although I fully expect to get fobbed off with 'he's just a baby, and babies whinge'.
Has anyone else had the same experience? Please tell me it got better!