Baby cries ALL the time - help!

[Becca199]

Hi, LG is 8 weeks old she never seems happy and is either crying or sleeping, I dread being on my own with her and her older sister (2.5yrs) because I’m struggling to manage her crying.

she is EBF which is not a problem at all, latches well and feeds quickly so is ideal. If I try pacify her cry with boob she ends up feeding and sick all over me. Won’t take a dummy - I’ve tried. I am wondering about reflux? Has a lot of wind it seems and try my best to get a deep lt h when feeding. Poops are maybe 3/4 times a week, possibly mucus-y poop but I don’t really know.

how can I actually enjoy my baby more?! I have 8 week injections this week so I’m going to chat to the doctor, from what I’ve seen/read omeprazile will make her more windy and tummy pain and gaviscon will constipate her when she barely goes as it is what should I do?

thanks if you got this far! ❤️

Is she otherwise ok? Putting on weight?

Could be reflux, or just ‘colic’. I have heard. Lot of good things about cranial osteopaths.

is there a particular time where it is worse? Our daughter used to have a witching hour between 6-10pm. We basically had to keep her occupied the whole time, going out for walks in the carrier etc.

it will just be a phase and gradually it will get better.

Alot of the time these are just phases babies go through.. I hope that will never the case for you. If she's feeding well and putting on weight etc she's probably fine but just having a growth spurt that's particular tiring.. some babies react to that by crying alot. I have a 10 week old and she's my 3rd and she's been a big crier. For about 2 weeks she cried all the time she was awake, even if you were holding her. but she seems to have come through the other side now. She still struggles in the late evening.. I think she gets upset when she's tired.
My other two weren't like that.. they only cried for obvious reasons.
However some babies do cry alot even when they've had all their needs met.
I hope it passes soon for you!

I had a baby who cried a lot. She's a lovely, very chilled teenager now, so there is hope! As a baby, she was always calmer in the sling, so held upright against me. If that failed, we'd go for a walk outside. She would stop crying as soon as she felt the fresh air, almost every time. I even did some middle-of-the-night walks, wearing my dressing gown!

I'm another one who had a baby that cried a lot. Like A LOT. But just because there's quite a few of us saying we had babies that cried do not let that take away how bloody hard it is. I cried as much as my DS most days. Felt like I was failing as a mother. We did do osteopath, I'm not sure if it helped or he was growing out of the constant crying anyway but he did improve. Around 4 months old he would he happy more than he cried. Then it just kept improving from there.

Absolutely chat to your doctor though and rule out other reasons.

My first was like that. I hallucinated from sleep deprivation. You are at the peak time for max crying unfortunately.
Fresh air always helps.
Look into witching hour.
Make sure baby thoroughly winded after being fed.
I know they say don't but I uses to tilt The cot in case of silent reflux.
I watched YouTube videos on what diff cries mean - that was a GAME CHANGER! as in Neyyy is hungry Heh is uncomfortable. I don't know why they don't teach this!
Have you got a fast let down?
All kinds of things it could be I never worked it out with mine he just gradually got better now he's a happy 3 year old!
Good luck x

Oh it's so hard 😢 my daughter was like this especially in the afternoon and evening. I found it helped to put her in a ring sling and dance around the room with her swaying back and forth. I know it sounds bonkers. We also had a carry blanket that we would hold with our hands and she would lie in and would swing her in (equally bonkers)! Something about the swinging movement used to calm her down! It stopped at around twelve weeks old I think.

My daughter was like this and for her it was a combination of multiple allergies, about 20 at the last count and severe silent reflux mild to moderate physical reflux. She was unsettled, cried and screamed for 16-20h a day and it utterly broke me.
She needed all her allergens removing from my diet, high dose omperazole, as much gaviscon as I could get in her, lactulose for the constipation and later domperidone

She was diagnosed with cmpa and soya allergy at 17 weeks and put on high dose omperazole and back on gaviscon at the same time and I had a different baby in a week. It took a lot longer before she was a happy baby but this was the begining of the end. Prior to this she was very behind developmentally and didn't smile or respond to sounds as she was just so distraught all of the time she smiled within a few days of me removing dairy and soya and by 5 months she was perfectly average developmentally

Sounds like constipation possibly? Babies should be pooing every day really so this could be causing her tummy pain. Bit young to take anything though. I’d try all of the above OP! Speak to your HV too.