So until this week, my 6 wo has not posed many problems- except the usual depriving us from sleep. He did cry a lot during changing clothes/nappies, nut nothing beyond that. He fed well (he is formula fed with occasional feeds of expressed milk), steadily increasing his feeds (he was 4 weeks premature) from 30- to now anywhere near 60-150 depending on how hungry he is.
He has colic, but again, after burping the crying was going away and was only happening after the evening feeds.
Since Wednesday, he started crying uncontrollably after evening meals, then on Thursday came morning feeds, and Friday/today even the night ones. There usually is at least one good feed a day when this is not yet happening. The crying can go for hours and nothing can soothe him, he does not even want to cuddle like he did before :(
He used to be able to fall asleep on my chest, and now he just grimaces and cries and cries.
We considered silent reflux on top of colic, our GP did not seem to concerned though and advised Gaviscon that I have heard not great things about.
We tried the dummy, and he took to it instantly- which makes me wonder if it can be reflux, if dummy can sort it out?
I don't want to rely too much on it as last night we tried to soothe him after the feed, he fell asleep and it fell out, and he woke us up crying like crazy again.
I am heartbroken, as I used to be able to soothe him cuddling, and he used to fall asleep on my chest, and we had a nice cuddly time together. Now I can only cuddle him when he is actually asleep
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Incontrollable crying after feeds0 what is happening to my 6 wo?
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LadyRenoir · 10/02/2018 17:39
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01/04/2024 20:35
Strawberry06 · 01/04/2024 20:24
@LadyRenoir I appreciate this was a while ago but my nearly 6 week old son is presenting the exact same symptoms! I wondered if you figured out a cause?
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02/04/2024 17:25
Strawberry06 · 01/04/2024 21:19
Forgot to add he's also put on weight, over a pound since birth!
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