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6 month old crying same time every day

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TripleESept24 · 11/03/2025 17:13

Anyone else's baby crying at the same time every day? My daughter has started hysterically crying at around 5pm every day. Her bottles are all still the same. She's just started food but only vegetables. She's never had colic can they just suddenly get it at 6 months? I've been rubbing some teething powder on her teeth which sometimes calms her down but not tonight..... She's definitely teething has all the signs but is it weird for it to affect them at the same time each day?
She's also started having much shorter naps she's had one half an hour and one 45 minute nap today, could it just be over tiredness? Or do their nap times shorten at this age?

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POSTC123 · 11/03/2025 17:17

Baby’s cry. Could be over tiredness. Boredom. Too much stimulation. Who knows.

It goes right through me and is awful but if they are fed, watered, clean and winded then there’s not much you can do.

TripleESept24 · 11/03/2025 17:20

TripleESept24 · 11/03/2025 17:13

Anyone else's baby crying at the same time every day? My daughter has started hysterically crying at around 5pm every day. Her bottles are all still the same. She's just started food but only vegetables. She's never had colic can they just suddenly get it at 6 months? I've been rubbing some teething powder on her teeth which sometimes calms her down but not tonight..... She's definitely teething has all the signs but is it weird for it to affect them at the same time each day?
She's also started having much shorter naps she's had one half an hour and one 45 minute nap today, could it just be over tiredness? Or do their nap times shorten at this age?

She has just started weaning..... And it seems to have started since then?

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HorribleHisTories15 · 11/03/2025 17:22

It is probably tiredness along with the many visual inputs that she is becoming aware of, e.g. people, animals, sounds, lights etc. it is very common. Just prepare yourself each day about 16:40 with soothing things, like cuddles, blankets, non battery operated toys that she can have in your arms while you cuddle her. Set up a little routine, so that afterwards she knows that dinner/ bath time is coming, and then she may approach the evening routine differently.

My Dd just wanted to be in my arms and for me to sit down with her around that time in the afternoon for an uninterrupted breastfeed. I would grab a book and have the radio on to listen to something in the background. Dd continued this on and off until about 3 years old. It made club drop off with the older DC a bit tricky sometimes, but they get there.

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TripleESept24 · 11/03/2025 17:25

HorribleHisTories15 · 11/03/2025 17:22

It is probably tiredness along with the many visual inputs that she is becoming aware of, e.g. people, animals, sounds, lights etc. it is very common. Just prepare yourself each day about 16:40 with soothing things, like cuddles, blankets, non battery operated toys that she can have in your arms while you cuddle her. Set up a little routine, so that afterwards she knows that dinner/ bath time is coming, and then she may approach the evening routine differently.

My Dd just wanted to be in my arms and for me to sit down with her around that time in the afternoon for an uninterrupted breastfeed. I would grab a book and have the radio on to listen to something in the background. Dd continued this on and off until about 3 years old. It made club drop off with the older DC a bit tricky sometimes, but they get there.

A book helped yesterday nothing really is tonight she won't even go on boob when she's really hysterical 🥺

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Ph3 · 11/03/2025 17:27

This is normal. My boy used to this as I was trying to get dinner together. I was told colic but for me it wasn’t. Eventually it goes away. Sorry OP.

edited: what I did do was starting his bath routine and that always seemed to help.

TinyMouseTheatre · 11/03/2025 19:45

Hard but you could drive yourself mad trying to figure out what it is.

Might be worth giving her a dose of paracetamol tomorrow at around 4pm to see if that helps.

You could also try a quiet day and feed a lot at home, just to check it's not hunger.

If you're offering vegetables there could be a chance that she's taking less milk from you because her tummy is full. There aren't as many calories in the vegetables so she could he genuinely hungry.

Try not honing her solids for a couple of days to see if that helps?

You could also try adding in an extra feed in the day.

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