Baby crying

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Hi I’m new to this, I’m looking for some advice about 12 week old baby, he cries most of the day and has done since birth more or less, has one or two feeds through the night

What are you doing when he’s crying?

Mine pretty much needed to be held all the time at that age or else they cried. I also fed them constantly still. Everytime they grumbled, a feed. Definitely during the night. Any crying during the night definitely needs a feed and a cuddle back to sleep.

If you’re already doing all that, I’d consider exploring if the issue is pain. Reflux or CMPA or other digestive issues. Also some babies, especially if they were poorly positioned in the womb can have neck/spinal pain. My youngest had torticollis (basically his neck was tight and stuck and causing him pain). 2 trips to the osteopath and he could move normally and was like a new baby.

Thanks for your reply, he has been diagnosed with a cows milk allergy when he was about 4 weeks old, but apart from a rash clearing up nothing else has improved, it’s mostly daytime, especially afternoon till about 7pm he doesn’t just cry he’s literally screaming

Infacol and a dummy?

How is the dairy allergy being treated?

All dairy has been removed

Tried that

How do you mean? From your diet? With formula?

Removed from everything

Yes from diet and formula

If you are breastfeeding have you also removed soya? As the proteins in soya are very similar to cows milk and half of babies are allergic to both.
About 10% of babies with cmpa also can't tolerate beef. Egg is another common allergens. If you are breastfeeding you might want to look at starting a food diary to see if there are common foods. My daughter has 20 food allergies and it took a long time to identify them all.

If you are formula feeding, check the formula. Many of the hypoallergenic formula are still dairy based. The formulas prescribed first are called extensively hydrolysed. The formula is treated which breaks down the dairy proteins so the body can't recognise them. This is enough for some babies but others need complete removal. These babies need elemental formulas, also referred to as amino acid formulas. These contain all the components of dairy formula but made directly from the individual amino acid. The most commonly prescribed amino acid formulas are alfamino, neocate and puramino.
Puramino contains soya and babies can react to this, my daughter couldn't have neocate because she is allergic to coconut and nearly all of the prescription formulas have coconut in. We went on to alfamino when I had to stop breastfeeding as this is was the only coconut free formula at the time.

It might also have nothing to do with other allergies. My daughter has severe silent reflux in addition to her allergies and this made her scream for 16-20h a day every day. It was made worse by exposure to allergens but was there as well. The prescription formulas, especially the amino acid formulas, are very thin and this can trigger reflux in babies that don't have a reflux problem normally. Thickening the formulas can help. My daughter had her breastmilk, formula and drinks until 5 thickened with gaviscon we also tried carobel but discovered she was also allergic to carob. She was also treated for the silent reflux with high dose omperazole which she is still taking at 5.5 and for a long time also have domperidone.

Thanks for your help I will definitely look into everything

Mine was like this, I just assumed it was the 'witching hour' non stop crying all afternoon. I used to take DS out in the pram for a long walk and just built it into my routine. I think it got better for me after 14 weeks, and eventually stopped.

If you are on top of the allergy and baby is fed, changed and being looked after, then they might just want to cry.