5 week old suddenly screaming at night - help!

[Insomnimummy]

My daughter is 5 weeks old and has suddenly started being inconsolable between 11pm and 2am.
She cluster feeds from 9pm and becomes increasingly unsettled - fidgeting, crying, not taking the breast properly and refusing to sleep. She becomes more and more distressed until she finally passes out from exhaustion.
After she has slept for 3 hours from around 2am she is fine again, and will feed normally and fall staright to sleep afterwards until the cycle starts again from 9pm.

Can anoyone offer some advice as to why this is happening and what I can do to help her please?

No idea why or what to do, I'm afraid, but crying is supposed to peak at six weeks, in case that helps.

Isn't this what they call "colic" when it's the same time every night? They don't know what colic is though. My baby cries and fusses a lot at other times too which makes me worry it's reflux. Either way I feel your pain and hope it gets easier for you! Mine is 6 weeks and I've heard tummy issues can get better after 3/4 months (please god!) and I also heard the peak crying thing too.

Sounds like colic or 'witching hour' crying. Try winding her more all day as there is a theory it's a build up of wind over the day. Infacol may help or I'm trying a homeopathic thing called colic calm, seems to help but might be in my head. I have a 5 week old so I feel your pain, some nights he cries for hours, other nights he's ok

Thank you guys.

I am tring the infacol, not sure if its having any effect. I'm looking forward to the 3 month mark when everything is supposed to 'get better'. In the meantime its just nice to know there are others going through the same thing :D

I have solved the not sleeping problem - we got a Fisher Price Cradle n Swing and haven't looked back since. She just can't fight going to sleep once we put her in it.