Difficult baby / clingy / whingey - I’m struggling

So my little boy is 11 months and has always been a whingey baby. He was very colicky for the first 6 months (even though breastfed!) and would scream, cry and be so unsettled. It gradually stopped around 6 months but the last month or two he’s been so unsettled again and I’m finding it so so hard.

I am so patient with him and give him 100% of my time but I can’t get anything done or have any time for myself, not even 5 minutes. He will only contact nap, not let me put him down to sleep in his cot, and if I do manage to put him down he will wake up 5 mins later screaming and will work himself up in such a red hot sweaty mess within a minute or two of waking if I’m not there straight away.

At night he will start off in his cot ok but will wake an hour or two after and will only sleep if he’s co-sleeping so I’m usually in bed by 8pm and get no time for myself. He will wake in the night for an hour the past few weeks and just be trying to crawl around or babble to himself but I can’t sleep either. In the day time he just wants to be held and I spend half my time on walks holding him and pushing the pram too. When he’s asleep it’s a contact nap, when he’s awake he needs me with him 24/7 - I just cannot win and don’t know how to navigate this.

He just doesn’t seem to be happy unless I’m constantly holding him and I just feel exhausted mentally and physically

Any advice or help appreciated

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