Crying before bedtime - don’t know what to do!

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Just posting for a bit of advice or a handhold in solidarity.
Our daughter is 11 weeks today and in the last week or so, has gotten into a real routine of screaming and crying when she’s put down to bed at night.
We follow and nice calming routine - bath and a change of sleepsuit, feed and cuddles. But in the last week, as soon as her sleeping bag is on or shortly after we finish the feed, she starts sobbing. She can be the same for naps too sometimes but the evenings seem to be the worst.
Is this normal? Will she grow out of it? I’m a first time mum and doubting everything we are doing at the moment and really struggling with the predictability of the screaming we get each evening - it can go on for half an hour/45 minutes sometimes. We don’t leave her, we comfort her by rocking her in our arms but this doesn’t even seem to help. Eventually she will just cry herself to sleep which is horrible to watch. I wonder sometimes if she needs to have a cry before she gets herself off to sleep but it’s just horrid to witness.
I should add when she stirs in the night she is able to settle herself back off to sleep - and when she wakes in the night to feed, she always settles down like a dream back into her crib. It’s just settling her for this first stretch of sleep which is proving such a challenge at the moment.
Has anyone else had a similar experience and found any ways of resolving it?

Yes it's normal
It's called the witching hour. At that age having a nice calming routine won't hurt but baby is too young to really stick to it reliably. It passes x

Welcome to the witching hour!

Totally normal.

Yep. My LO went through this stage. I found a dummy helped

Thanks all - she does have a dummy to settle herself but is often crying so hard that we can’t even get it to stay in or comfort her 😓

What about some pink noise?

Thanks @Pickle2021 - we have white noise playing for her and Ewan the sheep when she first goes down. Could try pink noise instead though!

Good luck and remember it doesn't last forever 😁

She's very small still - much too young for self soothing or any of that stuff. Most babies still want to sleep on you or very close by at that age. Just keep cuddling and reassuring her. It will pass quicker than you think although I know it seems like it will last forever.

DD1 was very very similar but she just couldn’t settle in our arms - it was almost like it was too stimulating for us. What did it was darkness, loud white noise, a full tummy and then us jiggling her cot until she calmed and fell asleep. Although she eventually learnt to self settle without crying, she still wouldn’t be calmed or nod off in our arms ever.

She’s very alert and fiercely independent now, at 2.10. Just her personality. Sadly her sister seems to be going the same way, but doesn’t like cot jiggling so we’re back to square one with her!