Unhappy 2 month old!

[Melrose86]

Hi everyone,

Just needing a little rant/friendly ears tonight! My baby seems to cry whenever he is awake. I feel stupid complaining about a crying baby as obviously babies cry but I would just love to have cuddles when he is awake but happy and have visitors or go places without praying he will sleep because otherwise he's crying. And it's not a quiet cry, sometimes its a full on scream! We've tried loads of things for colic but nothing works for long. He is formula fed and we use infacol which helps him burp and sometimes use gripe water. He sleeps really well at night now and loves walks in the pram but cries the rest of the day though he does nap well too. I just find it so hard hearing mums talk about how happy and content their babies are when I cant stop mine from crying. I cant help but compare us to a friends baby who was born on the same day. I wish my cuddles would calm him but they dont. I feel like everyone thinks me as the mum should be able to comfort my child but nothing i do helps. Sorry for the moan but I just wish I could have a happy child more often x

Some babies seem angry at the world because they're babies, it gets better as soon as they're able to do more.

I have no experience of colic, but my kid had reflux which was causing him pain so do keep an eye out for that.

Hang in there - 12 weeks was the magic number in my experience

I had the same problem OP. He didn't have reflux or colic. Or any other medical condition. He was just unfortunately a bit of a miserable baby! It's draining and hard and I would compare him all the time. Things massively improved when he was able to interact with toys. Then when he could sit on his own. And each month since then has been better and better. Hang in there x

My baby is 2 months and the past week or so has been exactly the same. Long periods of crying for no reason. It’s marvellous. I read online crying tends to peak at 6-8 weeks then eases off so hopefully both of our babies will get better soon???

Same here! Unfortunately mine didn’t improve at 12 weeks but peaked at 13-15 weeks. Things improved once she was able to hold her head up and look around, and again when she started playing with toys. Now (5months) I’m belatedly enjoying all the baby activities like taking her to the supermarket, on long walks and even restaurants. It will get better

Poor you. Some babies do just cry, but the baby I knew like this turned out to have a cows milk protein allergy, poor thing was in terrible pain every time he was fed. Have you explored anything like that?

Im not sure about allergies. He calms down about 9pm so feeds after that seem fine but then he can seem in pain during the day and evening. For weeks we thought trouble with winding was the problem but he is burping well now with the infacol.
He has his first jabs next week and he cries so much anyway i dont think we'll notice much difference. I feel terrible moaning but just writing it down on here is helping as i dont feel like i can talk honestly about how hard i find it sometimes as im in a much more fortunate position than others as my partner is home all the time as i earn enough for him to be a stay at home dad and my parents are close by but all I want is to be able to comfort my son :(

I had a crier too. Between weeks 2 and 6 he was a nightmare, if he wasn’t feeding he was crying. Not just moaning either, it was anguished screams until he finally fell asleep at 4am. We tried infacol, going dairy free, white noise etc, nothing worked. It gradually improved, I think he just grew out of it in the end. He’s 16 weeks now and he’s like a different child. Sending hugs

My DS had colic and we ended up changing his milk to Comfort Milk and his bottles from Tommee Tippee to Mam bottles, as well as using Infacol before every feed and sometimes Gripe Water after as well. The change in milk and bottles made a big difference imo and might be worth a try if you haven't already. Good luck @Melrose86 .