Hi K.,
It sounds like we're livng in the same household:) Thank you for your response to my request. My 5 month old is doing the same thing. He used to sit in one of his chairs and chill. Now it feels like unless he's nursing or sleeping, I have to hold him or keep switching up his environment to keep him happy. I did buy baby orajel and tylenol a while back because he started drooling, knawing on his hand and whining, so I figured he could be teething. Still, it seems to be something different. I told my fiance that I thought it was daylight savings time that messed up his schedule. He had just started sleeping through the night, and last night he got up 3 times! He hasn't done that since the first month. I'm exhausted! Working from home is difficult with this new fussiness. I literally keep changing it up, holding him, the exersaucer, the swing, the chair, the floor gym...whatever pleases him:) Two things you may want to try that sometimes work when nothing else does are the stroller and bed. Sometimes when he's beside himself and it's not food, I will lay him in his crib and he will happily pull his covers up and eventually drift off to sleep. And I feel like an idiot because he just wanted me to put him to bed. As for the stroller, we keep the small one-seater stroller in the house now and just push him around in it, since it's cold and getting darker, he loves it. I'm thinking that maybe because our sons are five months and will be trying to crawl soon, they have alot of pent up energy and they want to MOVE. But we're the only ones that can move them around right now. So, maybe they are getting bored more easily. For instance, if I walk out onto the porch with my son, he is so calm, he loves watching the cars go by and listen to all the noises. That's my guess personally. I imagine we'll be wishing for those days when we were their sole transportation in a few months...we'll think back to when we had so much more control over keeping them in the office:) Good luck and I'm right there with ya. Let me know if you come across any other solutions:P
N. W