OK, me and the DH are having a bit of a row every evening... DS3 regularly screams (with real tears!) periodically and loudly, between about 3-4pm till about 6-7pm...
DH can usually (eventually) calm him down with a dummy in a dark room and he falls asleep until the next bout... This usually takes a good 10-20 minutes of intermittent screaming.
I say however that this is cluster feeding and he just needs to be fed every half hour to hour in the evenings...
So I've just been feeding him more when he cries. But this has consequences - he has started developing green poos that seem very uncomfortable and he thrashes around a lot more in the evening (more than when he was just screaming? ?) so DH is convinced I'm giving him colic by overfeeding and I should try and space the feeds out more again.
Certainly (with all 3 boys) there have been times when they desperately needed to suck in the evenings but this just made them worse and in the end they'd just get furious with the breast and furious without it...
And with DS1 and DS2, they both had problems with green explosive poo because - I think - of my oversupply issues... DS2 had terrible problems with screaming, acidic poo, nappy rash, stomach discomfort that were instantly cured when I did single-sided feeding for a while and had a dummy in the evenings instead...
So I guess I'm asking what other people's experience of cluster feeding and/or colic; or whether there is any research evidence on cluster feeding that can help us decide.
And how do other people tell when enough feeds is enough of an evening and ?