Had some brilliant advice previously, hoping for some more because not sure how long this can go on for.
Dd will be 6 weeks old on Wednesday. She is exclusively formula fed and is on aptamil. For the past 3 days she has been very unsettled, especially at night. We think it's wind and have tried infacol and gripe water, jury's still out on whether they're helping. She's certainly burping and farting more but the pain and shrieking is continuing.
The problem is that she'll settle ok for a sleep around 8pm and sleep on and off, waking fpr a feed at around 11pm and then like clockwork after midnight she turns into a screaming monster. Every hour she'll wake herself with a shriek and will continue to cry really painful sounding cries until she passes wind. The trouble is it doesn't seem to matter how much we burp her or how much she farts, she'll pass wind, settle for a few minutes and then it starts again. It will go on like this, sleeping for 10 to 20 minute chunks and crying until about 6am. We try waking round with her, patting her, rocking her, in a sling, dummy- nothing settles her.
In the day she's much better, I can't understand why it's so severe at night. If it was a milk allergy surely it would be constant no matter the time of day? I've seen that 6 to 8 weeks is peak crying time but again is that really only at night? Please help, my husband is being fantastic and has taken the majority of the post midnight onslaught because it's a bank holiday but I'm dreading the week if it continues and I'll have to do the nights again when he goes back to work.