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Fussyness every time each evening

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Paigexx · 14/04/2019 08:23

My 6 week old daughter gets fussy at the about the same time every evening? Is this normal? She cries her eyes out to the point tears roll down her face and her cry changes to a deeper cry I feel like somethings wrong with her? Has this happened to anyone else, I don’t see what it could be I use colic drops in her milk I sometimes give her gripe water if she has cramps, but when she cries in the evening it’s as if she has cramps as she tenses her feet. It’s about 6pm every evening until 8pm

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Haz1516 · 14/04/2019 09:56

It's colic/witching hour. Make sure you burp her well, and keep trying infacol and gripe water. Are you bottle or breast feeding? If bottles then it might be worth trying a different type.

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Paigexx · 14/04/2019 10:45

I’ve been using colief drops since she was 2 weeks old it settled her.. she started getting wingey same time every night so I’m using Infacol now, she’s settled in the day and sleeps through the night only waking up at 4 for a feed, but it’s 6-8 she cries and cries.. I burp her well she’s very good at getting her wind up I just can’t understand why she goes through the phase every evening

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starpatch · 14/04/2019 20:39

I thought all babies were prone to this in the evening? I think it's due to overstimulation

Loubyloulou88 · 14/04/2019 20:45

We experienced the same at around the 5/6 week mark. It settle off for a couple of weeks then we just seemed to have had the witching hour back again the past 2 nights (dd is now 8 weeks). I just put it down to trapped wind and use gripe water to try and relieve her and find that a bath calms her. Sorry I can't suggest anything else but just know you're not alone and I'm sure it's pretty normal x

LaurenSarah22 · 15/04/2019 08:16

Oh my this brings back some memories. My baby was the same gripe water didn't work and eventually we put her on comfort milk and colief it seemed to help but I dont know whether it did or whether it was a coincidence.
Also when we was getting upset we would bath her and then rock her to sleep. It lasted around a month, make sure she is napping good during the day. Eventually it will stop just hold in there 🙌🏻

LaurenSarah22 · 15/04/2019 08:17

Oh we also changed to MAM anti colic bottles they are amazing!!!!

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