8 Week old baby keeps crying a lot

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Hi Everyone,

My 8 week old had her 8 week jabs on Thursday. Since Thursday she's not really been herself. She's not been feeding as much/as well. She's been crying a lot more - they're very loud cries.

Surely if it's the jabs then they should've settled by now? I'm not sure what else it could be. Would she cry all day from colic? It's not constant but it is very often.

FYI she has a suspected cows milk allergy and has been on a different formula. It's her third week. Could it be that?

Will ring the GP tomorrow morning would like some insight/reassurance until then

One of mine took more than 4 days to get over his first jabs. He was just miserable for about 5-6 days*. I don't think he smiled for a week, and he was a very smiley baby. However, if you are worried, then it is always worth getting her checked out. No doctor is going to mind doing a check on that age baby. Either they need to be seen, or they're easy, and reassurance for mum is what's needed.

*Tbf he's 16yo now and still reacts to every injection with a temperature for 48 hours and, if we're lucky, fainting. He looks on injections with great fondness; it means 2-3 days off school.

@MargaretThursday thank you for your response. Do you think it's the injection sites that might be causing pain? I'll definitely make an appointment to see the GP tomorrow - don't think she needs A&E as she does have periods where she does settle for a bit and she does still have wet nappies. Maybe you're right, she might take a little longer than the average two days to recover

If she's still not feeding fully, then I'd just take her down to the GP and ask him to check. She could have something like an ear infection that makes it uncomfortable to feed.

It probably isn't the injection site now, unless it looks swollen (they sometimes do come up a bit, again, don't worry unless that's spreading). It's more likely she just isn't feeling right.

I wouldn't go to A&E unless she has a high (over 38 at that age) temperature that isn't coming down, isn't doing wet nappies, or is floppy. Oddly in some ways crying can be a good thing because they have energy for that! It's when they haven't the energy to cry you need to (really) worry.
If she's having periods of settling, and also is having normal (for her) awake periods where she's responding then she almost certainly is fine, but it does no harm to get her checked in case there's something like an ear infection brewing.