Hellllp! 🙏

I have a beautiful 22 month old girl. But I’m really struggling with figuring out if her behaviour is normal or not as this is my first child and I don’t have any younger family members so any advice would please be so amazing!

My daughter was always a fussy baby, I did take her a few times to the health visitor for check ups but they always told me just some baby’s have bad temperament and also the fact she was breastfed could of contributed towards it.

I stopped breastfeeding around 17/18 months old, she’s just generally very moody. She does have her happy moments when I take her soft play/play group/park anywhere she can play and socialise she’s fine but other then that she’s constantly crying all the time from when she wakes up to when she goes to bed. She HATES having personal care done. Brushing teeth/hair/nappy change/washing she’s screams,crys and kicks till it’s over. She will not sit in the pushchair for even 5 minutes. She’s never been too fond of it but I would at least get 20 mins in to run an errand now she won’t even sit in it at all. I have to carry her everywhere I go no matter how far it’s gotten to the point where I don’t even take the pushchair out anymore because my shoulder was getting too much pain from holding her while pushing an empty pushchair. I know that’s a bit enabling but I couldn’t physically push it and carry her anymore. She has these melt downs. They will last around 20-60minutes but it’s not normal crying it’s inconsolable screaming/hair pulling/kicking she will even try climb onto the coffee table and go near the edge I don’t know if it’s a reaction thing. Her sleeps amazing. She wakes up at 5am every day but sleeps solidly through the night and has a 2.5hr nap in the day. Her earrings also amazing I am so grateful but I am so emotionally and physically exhausted I am terrified to have more kids! I do have gp for her again in a few weeks but nothing ever comes of it. Every day every task is a physical battle of screaming and stress sometimes she screams so hard she literally falls asleep of being so exhausted. I tried giving pain relief but that never helps unless she’s teething

Sorry for the long post if anyone has ever been through anything similar may I please hear any advice I don’t want to have my little girl be under so much stress and I am really feeling at rock bottom ❤️

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Same with my son. Same meltdowns. Same issues with personal care. Ftm too. It’s hard out here!!!

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My son is the same with personal care, he screams every bath time, refuses his teeth brushing & nail cutting, it’s genuinely a horrific battle every day for the basics. He’s also quite a clingy boy, would rather be carried than in the pushchair, honestly, I just think it their own preferences and personality? Look at yourself and everyone around you, you’re all different, like different things, relax in different ways, kids are no different. I think often we expect them to fit into a mould of what’s “normal” and “expected” but I think that just brings more harm to them than good!
Have you tried a hip sling? They’re a life saver for carrying a toddler! We use the wild ride its so useful x

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