1 month old baby screams all day but fine at night?

[August21yellowbaby]

My 1 month old struggles a lot in the day, he's very unsettled, clearly in some kind of stomach pain, he's on infacol, colief drops and gripe water.

He hardly sleeps in the day, waking up from crying after 10 mins of sleep, he screams when he passes wind

I was breastfeeding but his latch wasn't great and he would just fall asleep at the boob instantly

He's now on cow and gate milk , ready made at night and if we're out in the day and powder formula at home in the day. Probably only has 2 bottles of powder formula a day.

At night he's very settled from around 9pm and will just stir for bottles, cries when I do his nappy but other than that he's happy

I can't work out what the difference is at night?

Is this "just" colic? Is it an allergy ? But then wouldn't it still bother him at night?

Obviously I'm not complaining because I would lose my sanity if he was unsettled at night aswell and I was dealing with the terrible days on no sleep, but I really want a happy baby and it's breaking my heart seeing him scream the way he does in the day:(

I could have written this exact post when my lo was younger.
She cried and was so unsettled throughout the day but fine at night.
Have you spoken to your gp to see if it could be reflux or some kind of milk allergy? We trialled infant gaviscon for reflux, but it didn't make a difference.
She did eventually grow out of it at around the 4/5 month mark, and the gp put it down to colic. It was awful and definitely felt like it would never end. We're now a few months on, and she's now a happy baby and a lot more settled. Hang on in there, it will get better.

Do any of his symptoms sound like these @August21yellowbaby?

Is there any correlation that he is having a different type of formula day V night?

That's a really good point. Have you tried using ready made in the day?

If you're using a perfect prep in the day, that could be causing excess wind?

As an infant my daughters reflux and food allergies impacted her much more in the day time especially at 4 weeks by 15 weeks it was more continuous from 5am until 10pm so most of the day with a bit of reprieve. Once she was a year old it switched and mostly now aged 3y9m bothers her over night and much less in the day.

We also fed like you do in the early days and going between ready made and powder upset my DD so we stuck to powder and it settled her.

Do some tummy massage to help break up any wind he's held and it'll help him pass through as pumps.

I also used infacol etc and changed to dentinox and her burps were like a man after 6 pints.

Also agree on getting checked for reflux

How are things now @August21yellowbaby?

A little better but he's still unsettled in the day. Going to go back to gp and question reflux as he's become uncomfortable when having bottles now and is bringing up milk

Hi I had this with my second baby. And honestly I hated the wakeups because you would put her down and then ten minutes later she would thrash about waking herself up.
in the end I resorted to co sleeping and I absolutely hated it but it helped. For some reason the closeness seemed to limit the thrashing. I also suspected silent reflux as she had all the symptoms except being sick. I do breastfeed so I don’t know if that helped the closeness

anyway once she was 4 months I noticed the thrashing had stopped and now it seemed she needed space so at 5 months I worked on putting her in the cot and we have never co slept again (7.5 months now)
it’s not ideal I know but I found the lack of sleep so unbearable.
it does get better though!