Crying between every night, but only at a specific time

[babyOcho]

DD is 10 weeks old and we have had a bedtime routine since she was 2 weeks... bath, massage, feed with dim lights in her room and then into bed just before 7pm. However, when she got to about 6 weeks she sleeps, but then wakes every 10-30mins crying.

We thought it was colic, so had been giving her infacol, but she doesn't demonstrate any other colic signs. The dummy works sometimes. We have tried patting, sshing, curtains slightly open, curtains slightly closed, varying the times, all sorts of stuff.

Then at 8.30/9pm she stops crying. When we give her a feed at 10/10.30pm she happily takes it and then goes back to bed - awake or asleep - with no problems. She naps pretty well during the day as well, its just in this early evening.

Does anyone have any ideas? Could it be related to the sun setting?

She was an assisted delivery so we took her for cranial osteopathy when she was a couple of weeks old and she was fine. Should we take her back again?

I had this with my DS2, exactly the same. Is your DD really thrashing around, red-faced, sounding angry with a high-pitched, wailing cry? That's colic, I think. Gripe Water is brilliant

If she is doing a more traditional "waa-waa" cry, could she still be hungry? I think babies know when they are being put to bed for the night, and keep waking up if they're hungry. Maybe try giving her one medium-sized feed before her bath and another medium-sized fed afterwards, so she gets 1.5 feeds? My son will drink a lot after a bath so it's a good way to top him up if he's fed badly during the day.

Does she stick her bottom lip out when she's crying? If so, the Baby Whisperer book says that means they're too cold. I once went upstairs to my wailing DS2 and thought, "WHAT IS IT?" then noticed his bottom lip was out. Put an extra blanket on him and boom, asleep.

It was much, much better last night - she only cried once and the dummy seemed to have regained its magical properties

I dont think that its colic as she doesnt show any of the traditional colic signs - legs, thrashing around.
I do feed her before the bath and then after the bath. I might try giving some more again when she wakes again.
We use sleeping bags, so I am sure that she's not too hot/cold.
thanks for your comments BEAUTlFUL