Where has my sweet boy gone???

[MrsM17]

He is almost 8 months and has been the easiest, placid baby until this last few weeks. He got tonsilitis and had an allergic reaction to penacillin and he's not been himself since. He is well and truely over the reaction now but is teething peggy no.5.

He is now mobile and seems to be tantruming at everything!!! Whining all the time. Wont sit on my knee, does his best screaming ironing board impression when going in the car seat or pushchair, screams when things are taken away. Constantly throwing his head back screaming in a wind pipe blow manoover! His sleeping has gone awful, he always woke for 1 feed but has gone back to 2 night feeds,although I am sure he is not hungry but he wont be comforted by us when he cries, picking him up makes him worse and he screams louder (just like his brother used to do) so a lot of the time we have to just leave him screaming which is awful.

Anyone else??? x

 

[MindUtopia]

Hang in there. Do whatever you need to do to comfort him and get through it. It will pass. My daughter went through this from about 8-10 months. She had a month long bout of bronchiolitis, where she was on lots of antibiotics and just not eating much either, paired with teething and the separation anxiety that is normal around that age, plus becoming mobile. She would wake every 30 minutes unless someone was with her (my husband and I literally ate in shifts for about a month, while the other tried to get her to sleep all evening). She was clingy, couldn't let me out of her sight, and got really upset around other people. It's just one of those things. We held her lots, rocked her to sleep, kept her close, and then bam, one day she just popped out of it and was this happy, calm, confident, outgoing little person again. It's just one of those rough phases and it will pass. Hang in there. Get support. Take a break if you need it until it does.