7 week old constantly crying & hard to settle

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Hi all. I am after any advice possible, I’m a first time mom to a little girl who is 7 weeks and 3 days old.
Since 2 weeks of age she has cried and been hard to settle and we have been diagnosed with colic, reflux and 3 weeks ago potentially a cows milk protein allergy for which she is prescribed formula.
The crying has continued and she only has short bursts of the day where she is settled. She constantly fights sleep and is only napping 20 mins x 2 in the day - no rocking, soothing, pushcair, car, dummy, white noise settles her and she gets so angry.
We have tried to keep her in a bit of a routine in the evening with a warm bath, story, feed in a darker room and it can take 4-5 hours of crying to get her to sleep with every intervention tried (clean nappy, fed, winded, check temp, cuddles). However once we are able to settle her at night she sleeps for 6-7 hours has a feed and bum change and will sleep for another couple of hours so this isn’t all night. We have been in touch with health visitors numerous times, the GP and A&E visit when she was unwell a few weeks ago where we were given prescription milk.

Any advice on how to settle a baby before they become overtired? Or how long the inconsolable crying will go on for (she has been checked over numerous times by health care professionals who have stated she is a healthy baby).
Thank you - from a drained emotional first time mom.

You poor thing, this sounds exhausting. I believe colic is essentially something you have to wait for them to grow out of, as improvement is linked to developmental progression. I think most are usually a lot better by 12 weeks.

I don't have any tips as it sounds like you're doing what you can. Just keep being there for her, reassuring her and repeatedly working through your list of what the issue could be. I hope it improves for you soon.

Honestly my little one was like this. Different baby at night vs the day. Came on suddenly at 5 weeks and lasted till 12 but then it did get better. She still cries when being put down for a nap or for bed despite following the right wake windows and trying so many different nap schedules. She didn’t have CPMA and ate well but cried almost incessantly. Best of luck x

Did they not give you anything for the reflux? My little girl has silent reflux and was the same, very unsettled and crying constantly. They gave us gaviscon which didn’t help much so then was given omeprazole. It’s by no means 100% but she has improved and definitely drinks more milk now.