Screaming from 7pm to 4am...

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My 2 week old BF DD was unsettled from 7pm last night, and screamed inconsolably from 10 to 4am, when she finally went to sleep... It looked like colic, I think - furious red face, lashing arms, pulling up legs. She has seemed a little colicky in the evenings before but never this bad...

I guess I am just after some reassurance/advice. Do you think this is likely to be the situation for the duration now? And is there anything we can do about it? Have tried all kinds of rhythmic motion, swaddling (makes her really angry!) and so on. Could it be something I ate?

She is a pretty large baby (10.5lb) and putting on weight well, but today I am totally at my wits end at the thought that this could be our lives for the next three months... It's upsetting to see her so distressed, too.

My DD had colic and I feel your pain. Unless you have an inconsolable baby you just don't understand how awful it is, and yes the thought of it being night after night is very depressing.
We took our DD to a cranial osteopath when she was 15 weeks old and it worked wonders. I think she was slowly getting better anyway, but it definitely made a difference for us.

I would 2nd the osteopth...but that sounds like some extreme screaming!

TBH, I would be going to GP or HV today if one of mine cried that much.

You must be absolutely shattered. Poor you!

We're just coming out the other side of this with DS now 11 weeks. We started seeing a CO at six weeks and I think it really helped the pain side of things very quickly. He was still fussy at night for a few more weeks, but he's a changed being now

So you have my every sympathy, I know just how awful those late nights are sat up alone with a screaming baby. However it will pass, and in hindsight will seem a very short time really.

Our DS did this a lot too (not quite as severe, but enough that I visited A&E twice).

We were told to use Infracol which partially helped, but the main solution was to go out and buy a vibrating chair that was ok from an early age.

We mostly got the vibrating chair to save my car as we had found that doing runs at 11pm and 2am helped get him to sleep.

Usually after a 30 minute round-trip on a fast A-road he was asleep and on nights that he was really bad we just slept him in the car seat rather than risk waking him by transferring to his cot (it was 3-4 hours between feeds at that point).

Although, at 10lb, you would need a pretty good chair. At 20lb, ours doesn't vibrate so well.

We only did that routine for the first month and a bit till he figured day and night properly and slept better at night. Although the colic lasted into his 4th month and spitting up till his 8th.

Thanks for the advice... Should I call the Dr./HV today? She is sleeping like a baby now...

If it makes you feel any better it might not last 12 weeks. My DH came down with colic around two weeks old and we had hell for three weeks then it magically lifted. I tried all sorts but think it was the infacol and also me giving up as much dairy as I could for a while. Good luck and I hope 'this too shall pass' sooner rather than later.

Oops that should be DS not DH. Although he got pretty miserable and upset during that period too!!