I have an 11 week old who is, during the day, a relatively easy baby - feeds well, is alert and smiley when awake and settles herself and sleeps well for naps. She is on a rough 3 hour cycle and sleeps for at least one hour but more often needs one and a half hours in each cycle. At night, between the hours of 12.30 a.m. and 7.30 a.m. again all is well. It is the evening that is proving really difficult.
Some time between 7 p.m. to midnight she goes into meltdown. She cries and flails about. She eats heartily during this period so it is not hunger. It is not wind - she had dreadful wind but seems to have come through that now. I thought it must be a case of over-tiredness (and she is clearly knackered) and have tried to settle her at 7 p.m. and at various other stages through the evening but she won't go down. What is particularly weird is that, after being calmed by either my husband or me, she is often really serene, seems really sleepy and when put down goes to sleep beautifully and then after 5 or 10 minutes wakes up yelling. We have tried leaving her to cry and settle herself but her crying just escalates and she gets frantic.
My husband gets home at about 8.30 p.m. to be confronted with a more-often-than-not frantic baby. We haven't had an evening meal in peace for weeks. My little boy (2 years old) always settled well so this is unchartered territory for us and we are exhausted!!! Sound familiar to anyone?? Any ideas??