Im going nuts!!

so my baby is 8.5 months old, she doesn't have any teeth yet but has been drooling like crazy for the past months, she has also has this habit of playing with her ear so its hard to distinguish if she has an ear infection or not, and we are in the storm phase of leap 6 which has been hellish.

My baby has always been the calm easy baby, she has been playing with her own , napping good and when put to bed she'll be sleeping 11 hours at night with maybe 1 wake up.

well fck me this has week has been the worse. She's fussier than usual, always wants attention, wanting to be held more, refusing to nap and sleep in her own crib and the moment we step in our room ( we room share ) she'll cry hysterically and even more so when laid down. Last night, she was up for four hours!!!!! in the middle of the night, screaming her lungs out of and on. I was doing my best to stop her from crying, holding her, rocking her, singing her favourite lullaby , entertaining her but she still fuss and complained. She ended up sleeping when being rocked and held by me and woke up 3 hours later then we're up for the day.

I have slept for only 6 hours in the past two days. I'm exhausted, I'm alone in the day with her because my husband is working for 9 hours a day and at night I'm still the one that's taking care of her because I don't want my husband to lose sleep because of his work. He has been helpful don't get me wrong, but it does really take a village to raise a child.

I don't know what to do or why is she acting like that, is it teething? or is it sep. anxiety or is it ear infection? or is it leap 6? so many questions and I'm getting worried, I'm dead tired and I probably need a gallon of ben & jerry or maybe tequila. Sorry for the long post, I'm just letting it all out. I hope everything's doing great with y'all out there! And for everyone that gone through the same thing as me, I salute y'all! maybe give some advice for newbie mom here :) Anything will help.