Our baby is absolutely lovely, spent her first night in hospital (EMCS) and she was very chilled, but since we came home she becomes totally overwrought in the evenings and NOTHING is settling her. Have tried swaddling, white noise, music, holding her, etc etc etc. I think she is overstimulated or something but how can we avoid that?
I can't feed her from about 10pm to 5am as she is too wound up to latch (there are no concerns about feeding otherwise, she gets on great during the day), we have had some success with a dummy but she gets too upset for that even.
If we put her in the car or the pram and take her out she will go to sleep, but obviously we can't sleep and walk/drive at the same time, and I can't do much of anything due to CS.
At the moment her dad is upstairs in bed and I am in the kitchen with her, she's in her pram and I'm just trying to ignore the crying, surely she's got to stop sometime?
I don't even care if she never sleeps at night, I just want to be able to do something about how upset she seems. She has screamed continually since about half eleven, it's now quarter to four
We've had brilliant support from the midwives on the delivery suite, they are on the end of the phone and reassured us that she's fine and we're not doing anything wrong, but it's so upsetting to hear and see this tiny baby seemingly so distressed for such a long time.
Please help! I know it'll pass but that's not helping us just now.
Co-sleeping is NOT something we will consider, so thanks but don't want to hear about that.