Hysterical screaming - 3 month old

[Sillymummies123]

Hi all,

At my wits end! Our new girl is lovely, smiley, happy, playful, until she's not. We felt she had colic starting around the one month mark which almost broke us. She's our second child and our first never made.sounds like this. Starting at 7pm she would just cry and progress gradually to screaming over a period of 3 hours. She would kick and scream and reject cuddles until she finally just sort of... passed out.

This stopped a few weeks ago but now it's back and she also wakes up in the night like it... today she slept from 10pm (after screaming) to 5am, when she woke up and started screaming again. Partner is in with her. She's still screaming. Short high pitched scream - inhalation - short high pitched scream - inhalation - she absolutely refuses milk but its been 7 hours! Mercifully our 2 year old tends to sleep through this, but she's getting louder and louder and it's taking longer and longer to console her. These screams are like she's being tortured, and they're becoming the norm in night waking.

In the day, she's happy, can be put down to play on her mat, interactive, smiley.

It's nothing like what our first did and we're feeling very out of our depth. It honestly sounds like someone is running over a cat a steamroller.

Any advice or reassurance would be appreciated. She's putting on weight well, makes good eye contact, smiles lots, so is, as far as a doctor would care, healthy. However, the screaming and our inability to console her is making us question ourselves.

My DD did exactly this and it turned out to be silent reflux, have you spoken to your GP at all?

Haven't spoken to GP. Where she's gaining weight and seems otherwise fine, I know they won't do anything. I guess I could make an appointment. She's not had any sign of reflux and while I know it's called 'silentl' for a reason, so many of these things just feel like a guess

I would say the crying for hours at night is a pretty strong sign.

I'm not sure that's right about the GP not doing anything - might depend on the GP I guess. There are a variety of things they can prescribe which might or might not work, it may just a question of time and growing. My DD's silent reflux lasted from about six weeks to at least six months, maybe seven months can't quite remember.

@Sillymummies123 are you using anything for colic? Infacol or anything. My son has colic and we noticed a big difference since using infacol.

Also my HV referred us for baby massage because his colic was so bad. I definitely think the tummy massage helps too if he's having a bad day.

We had this with our second who is now 2. I truly believe it was this... and as predicted it got better in time. It was awful, I feel your pain

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Sounds like silent reflux… have they got any cows milk allergy signs either? Funny poo, rash, eczema??

That's so hard. If she'd ff try putting Dentinox in the bottle. I'd also add an extra feed when she is happy, so if she's feeding every 4 hours, try every 3.

Does remind me of when both my DDs has reflux as babies. That sort of cry is because of pain.