Baby screaming constantly

Hi,
My baby is nearly 11 weeks old and we’re really struggling with her at the moment.
The last few days she has been so incredibly upset most of her waking hours, she will SCREAM like she is in pain, if you put her down. Or if she’s content in her bouncer or on her mat, then you move her. She screams again. The only way she stops is if we hold her over the shoulder and walk around / swaddle her and aggressively shush and rock.
She’s also gone off her feeds, taking just over half of normal.
She’s still sleeping through the night fine. I can’t see it being pain related but I don’t know. I’m a FTM so this is all foreign to me.
Any help? Please 🥲

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Silent reflux?colic? X

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she does have reflux. We’re using infacol it has been working but the past few days she’s been awful. I’ve read up on wonder weeks.. I wonder if it’s that?

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Ostheopath is a go. With mine it was the same. Don’t do chiropractic in this young age.

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Is she going toilet regularly? My LO was like that when she was younger, she ended up with the infacol, which made her bunged up, so we left it for a few days and she was fine after that. So just be careful.

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yes usually every other day. We haven’t noticed any toilet troubles since starting the infacol, we actually switched to that as dentinox was causing constipation for her. Thankyou for the advice though!

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how would this help? What do they do?

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Your welcome, how is your LO now? Any problems? My LG was prescribed lactoluce if she ever had problems, we make sure she has it once a day to make sure she doesn't suffer.

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she is doing a lot better. She was prescribed gaviscon for silent reflux and that seems to help massively! And use comfort formula inbetween to help with constipation which she doesn’t seem to suffer from :)

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