11 week old screams every night around 9pm

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Hi
Can someone please help my 11 week old baby just screams every night like she’s in pain around 9pm it lasts hours and im at my wits end... it’s killing me to see her scream and cry and have little tears run down her face while she’s looking at me 😓 xxx

Colic?

Feel for you OP.
Sorry no great advice but the only thing that seems to stop a hysterical baby for a short while is bobbing them in the air.
Hold baby as if your sitting them on your lap when you wind them when you hold under their jaw. Then with the other hand lift them up from under their bum and bob them about in the air.
Sorry hope this makes sense. Might give you a brief moment of quiet to compose

Hiya girls
Keep getting told it’s colic but what is colic and when does it stop.. also yes will try the bobbing tonight when it all starts again

Thankyou for your reply’s

My son used to have colic every night from 7-9 was exhausting. Nothing seemed to help him, I did use infacol to ease it, it seemed to help

I think now you can get anti-colic bottles. Have you tried them?

Infacol or Dentinox or Gripe water. Anticolic bottles if bottle feeding or trying to feed more upright if bfing. Burp for much longer than you think she needs. Over the shoulder worked well for us. And just lots of walking up and down with them when they feel uncomfortable/upset. It's awful seeing them so upset but it does pass.

Tiger in tree pose
Going for a walk in sling
Bath
Holding baby and bouncing on birthing ball
Noise cancelling headphones/ear plugs to keep you calm

babyhintsandtips.com/doctor-tips-colic-bore-your-baby-to-sleep/

This is a great link

My dd used to scream every night at 8pm at that age, I used to call it the witching hour! For her, there wasn’t anything wrong with her (I’ve twins and my ds had colic so they both had all the treatment for colic!) but she just wanted to cry. I used to just cuddle her upright, and she’d eventually cry it out and fall asleep. Turns out she just (weirdly!) needed to cry herself to sleep, and still does on occasion - nothing I would/could do could help.

If it is colic, it normally stops around 16 weeks. I used to use anti colic bottles (dr browns), infacol, gripe water and dentinox in their bottles, and a combination of burping, tummy massage, leg cycling and lying my son on his side and gently lifting his leg up towards his tummy to get him to pass wind - they had a hip scan shortly after birth and lying like that got him to pass wind so I carried on doing it as and when needed for his colic.

I feel your pain, it’s absolutely awful hearing them screaming. My DTs are now 20 months and every burp and parp still makes me chuckle and feel happy, because the colic weeks haven’t left my memory yet!

A message of solidarity- my dd used to scream inconsolably from 6-9pm every night for a few weeks when she was around 5 weeks old.

Google 'purple crying' - it really helped me through this very difficult time. Eventually she became less screamy and more fussy, and then it calmed altogether.

Even though it feels like it, this won't last forever - sometimes we are just trying to get through the next phase! You've got this mama.

Thankyou all
She is in bouncer as we speak while DH trying to keep her distracted but she’s trying to start.. the hold under bum works.. she stops cry instantly but my arm cannot take hours of that hold.. I will be like Arnold swarnegger soon
Thanks girlies

As another poster said it's the witching hour. My little one used to cry and cry from 7-10 every single night. Then he grew out of it.

Try different positions, lots of cuddles and keep baby upright incase it's colic causing it.

Also worth trying to put baby down for a nap before the crying usually starts as they may just be really tired

Oh yes the witching hour. DC1 it was at 11pm, DC2 it was at 7pm, DC3 it was at 8.30pm. Could set my watch by it, the same with all Three but different with all three of them!

My LB did this around the same age because he was tired and wanted to go to bed. We started doing a night routine and putting him upstairs, in his next to me cot. Over time he would get upset earlier so his bedtime was moved forward 30 minutes at a time and now he’s asleep for 6.30pm. If we kept him up any longer he would scream and cry. Xx