14 week old cries EVERY night - is it still colic?

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From 5 weeks my DD has cried (or more like red face screaming) every night from when I put her down (about 6.30). It is slowly getting for shorter periods so now only lasts a couple of hours and in the early stages went on till 11pm at night.

I have taken her to the Dr and she says all colic should end by 14 weeks but it is still going on. I am really worried that the colic means that we have created lots of bad sleep associations i.e. being rocked to sleep, using a dummy (although if it falls out all hell breaks loose) plus I can only settle her on her tummy which scares me because of SIDS but it just helps her and I don't let her stay like that all night, just early evening.

Could it be something more like milk intolerance? She is 60/40 breast/bottle fed. Dr gave me Gaviscon but that has made her constipated so now I am worrying about that as well!

Could it be that she is overtired? Could it be I am feeding her pre bath and then post bath - are the split feeds causing indigestion?

Or should I just suck it up and get on with it as like the Dr said, it will pass?! She is such a happy baby during the day but by 6pm she is like a different baby & I have to just hold her for a couple of hours till she calms down.

advice please

It's a nightmare! My DD had colic till 5 months and roared for hours - I used to walk round and round the village with her just to share the misery and not p**s off the neighbours too much!

We changed to Dr Brown bottles which really helped as did a dummy - whatever anyone says, if it helps - do it!

DD now sleeps like a log but it took a while... felt like I was losing my mind to sleep deprivation in the meantime though, sleep when you can and b*er the housework till she settles.

Hope it gets better - on the plus side if the milk is staying down it's probably not intolerance x

thanks mummywithoutaclue think the hardest thing is I feel like it is something I am doing that is not helping her in some way.

Will give Dr Brown bottles a go.

x

Don't blame yourself. I think my rule of imagining the child at 18 started with DC1 and colic. I don't think it did stop magically at 14 weeks, more like about 15. However just knowing it couldn't go on forever (i.e. until they were 18) did help.

Try anything and everything - as even the smallest improvement helps.

Its not you, and it will pass (eventually).

Went out and bought some Dr Browns and it seems to have done the trick - amazing!! Still a bit of crying (about 20 mins) and two big burps but none of the thrashing around and writhing in (what looked like to me) pain as of prev evenings.

Plus she took the most formula she has ever taken at that feed. Can't believe I never tried them before.

Still settled on her tummy as we have got in to the bad habit of that (but flip her over later in the eve) but 6.40pm and no screaming is a minor miracle in this house......fingers crossed it lasts.....