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3 week old losing his shit on an evening - please help!

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AllesAusLiebe · 23/10/2018 22:46

Hello,

If anyone has any suggestions as to what I can do about this, I’d be so grateful! Slowly losing my mind!

My son is 3 1/2 weeks old and is so lovely during the day - rarely cries (he’s bf and I’m really responsive to his little cues now), really alert and generally chilled out.

For the last week, he has completely lost it every evening from about 6pm to 10:30pm and nothing I try seems to work. Honestly, he’s like a different kid - crying, whining etc.

I try and feed him but he pulls away, I’ve tried walking around the house with him, Infacol, nappy change, pacifier, turned the lights down, sling.... nothing works!

Anyone else had this trouble? Did you solve it? How did you stop yourself from going crazy??

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AllesAusLiebe · 04/11/2018 22:09

@Kokapetl that’s really interesting - i was just having this exact conversation with DH today.

DS is now 5 weeks old and still losing his shit on an evening. Last night’s marathon lasted from 7 to 11:30. Sad To be honest it was a little scary because both DH and i were really on the verge of losing our patience at one point and neither of us are bad tempered people.

Anyway, yesterday I read an article that said a 5 week old shouldn’t be awake for longer than an hour and also that ‘play’ time should be restricted to between 5 - 10 minutes each time. I’d love to know what I’m supposed to do with him for the remainder of the awake time, but anyway...

Today he’s slept in 2 - 2 1/2 hour blocks and after only half an hour of whining, went to sleep at 8:30 and is still sleeping now.

I hope we have found the solution, I really do.... 🤞

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Kokapetl · 05/11/2018 11:46

Hope it works.

DC1 was an easy baby and would just go to sleep when he needed to. The second baby... didn't! We had a few nights of screaming before I worked it out and it was mainly because I forgot her naps while I was making dinner for DC1 and suddenly she'd been up for 3 hours without me realising!

If it any comfort, she is now a lovely preschooler and had no terrible twos, whereas the first (easy -baby) one was much more of a pain later on!

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