Evening cries

[daiseyduck]

Hi guys, please help

I have a 6 week old and they are pretty easy however between 6-8pm every night the screaming & crying starts and lasts for hours. Last night it lasted until midnight & I don't know why or what to do.

Has anyone else's baby done this? What helped?

They are fed, changed & warm. I can't figure out what the crying is for.

Sounds like your experiencing "the witching hour". It's not really an hour but it can be several hours during the evening. For my son it would typically start as soon as our dinner was cooked and trying to eat would be a nightmare.
It settled for us around 2-2.5 months but he is 5 months now and still more grizzly after 5pm until bed time. We found going for a walk helped a little (or at least got us out the house and passed some time).

I think it's especially hard if your partner is coming home from work as they tend to just see the baby in the hard stage of the day.

Hopefully your baby will pass through it soon enough!

We had this and luckily it only lasted 3 weeks. It was usually from about 6 - 9pm, lasting about 3 hours. We basically wrote a list of things that always stopped her crying, and things that sometimes stopped her crying, and developed a routine of doing them one after another in a row every night. Things that would always get her to stop crying included taking her in the shower, taking her for a walk outside in the carrier, and the hey bear baby sensory video with unicorns in it (don't judge us please we were desperate). And things that usually stopped her crying included, believe it or not, playing heavy metal to her! I can't recall the rest of the list as she is 23 months old now. She still had bouts of crying during the routine, but sometimes she would drop off to sleep for a bit. I think they just get extremely overloaded by the end of the day when they are tiny and it doesn't matter how many naps they had, they are just knackered anyway. Maybe see if you can make your own list and routine. Right as we got into the swing of it, she stopped doing it! I gather it usually stops by 12 weeks and ours didn't start doing it until at least 8 weeks old. Good luck. It will pass.