At night my five week old baby screams and screams and screams the poor little thing. I don't know why or how to comfort her.
It always starts around half nine. The theories are:
- acid reflux. She does possetting rather a lot. We've raised her crib at one end as her breathing laid on her back sounds noisy and congested. We're seeing the GP tomorrow
- she's overtired. She dozes from 3-7pm in twenty minute bursts between cluster feeds. She doesn't really nap during the day.
She tries to feed but is in too much of a state to latch on once she's got going, she goes red, has tears and claws at me whilst screaming fit to bust. I can't console her. It's terrible to hear, really frightening.
In desperation on sunday I put her on her own for ten minutes and she stopped and then ten minutes after that had a big feed and went to sleep happily but I hate the cry it out thing particularly in one so tiny.
I've tried a dark quiet room from early evening but it does nothing. from 7-9pm she's usually a bit manic, she winds herself up wiggling and gurgling which makes me thing she's overtired.
She's been screaming and clawing at me now for 40 minutes