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Witching hour and refusing to eat?

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RFP · 12/01/2023 20:42

Hi mums and dads, hope you can share some advice or at least tell me there is light at the end of the tunel as I can't take this anymore. My 10 weeks old, exclusively brestfeed is a a content and happy baby during the day. Since 6 weeks old, as soon as she has her last nap (5-5.30pm) of the day she will be quite irritable; I give her a bath (she loves it) and need to feed her but as soon as I start dressing her and 6pm hits she will start crying blue murder and refuse to feed. I sometimes manage to calm her down on my shoulder but as soon as I try to lower her into the feeding position she will start again (bearing in mind she fed 4 hours ago, surely she is hungry) . By 7pm I give up so I swaddle her and go into the nursery where is white noise and I will rock her to sleep and eventually manage to get her to latch while standing and she will eat. I don't mind dream feeding her like this but I can't handle the stressful evenings while trying to get her sister sorted as well. I am really on the top of the naps during the day and will make sure she will get at least 4.5 hours of sleep.
I am absolutly out of ideas so please tell me it gets better as some point.

Thank you

OP posts:
Jasmine89H · 29/08/2023 22:49

Hi I am going through this currently with 4 week old. Do you have any tips of what worked for you? Thanks

wideawakeyetagain · 29/08/2023 23:01

Is it the same time every night ? X

Tiredsotired23 · 29/08/2023 23:15

Try cutting out dairy. It can pass through breast milk. Just my experience but my son couldn’t tolerate dairy, this worked and he’s fine now

Jasmine89H · 29/08/2023 23:50

More or less. She fusses so much on the breast and refuses to feed, we’ve been giving expressed bottle milk to calm her down. At first I thought there was an issue with my supply. She is my second and never experienced this with my son. Every evening is exhausting and stressful

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