Please help- DS has started uncontrollable crying before bed at 14 weeks...

[Newmom2b]

DS is 14 weeks and is a lovely happy little boy in the day time.
We started a rough bedtimebroutine at around 6 weeks with bath, feed and bed at 7pm. He would feed to sleep and by around 11 weeks he was feeding to sleep at 7 and then going for 6/7 hours, feeding at 1/2ish and then going straight down again till around 4/5. Brilliant......or so I thought until the new year when it has all gone balls up!
As of beginning of jan he started waking every 2/3 hours again and waking up as soon as he's transferred to the moses basket. As he was waking up when we put him down we tried self settling but the problem is he will just cry and cry and cry (even if we are there on the room with him!). I have read that the frequent waking is probably the 4 month sleep regression but he's now started crying from after bath time as if he knows what's about to happen and it's impossible to settle him at all. Eventualy after a couple of hours he's asleep (somehow) but because he cries (screams!) so much he is still catching his breath in his sleep. Any ideas on what we can do to break this constant screaming at bed time?

Could he be too tired by that point? I think my DSs bedtime started to creep earlier as he got older, now he is in bed by 6 or he has a meltdown.

I would suggest the same as curlykate - this is v similar to experience of close friend, she had to bring bedtime forward. With my DS that real uncontrollable crying is always overtiredness (I can calm by nursing if you are still b/feeding but this may become 'prop' if you are worried about that). Otherwise keep with predictable routine but just start it earlier! Good luck, must be a horrid way to end a happy day - but not uncommon.

Thanks, yes I did think tiredness may be a cause. He's usually up from his afternoon nap by 4.30/5ish when dh gets home and then we keep him up until bedtime. So sometimes he's up for 3 hours. I'll try either a later nap or earlier bedtime tomorrow and see if that makes a difference.. X

Both mine did this at exactly the same age. It's an increased awareness of the world and over stimulation. They're suddenly aware of the big wide world and at the end of the day can't switch off. Earlier bedtime might help. Try for 90 minutes - 2hrs ish awake at the end of the day instead of 3hrs.