Witching hour

How are you guys getting through the witching hour? Or if your baby is colic how are you getting through them crying for no reason?
We go through all the boxes: feeding, diaper change, burping, singing/talking to baby, walking around the house, going outside for fresh air, lower gas techniques, skin to skin, music/shushing, etc.
NOTHING seems to work!
I feel soooo bad seeing my baby’s face turn red and scream crying and not being able to do anything. It’s so heartbreaking 💔❤️‍🩹
I was about to ask “has anyone dealt with this?” But i know witching hour & colic babies are pretty common lol - so what have yall done in these situations??! Im so lost with what to do! :-(
Note: my baby is 3 weeks old
I’d rather not try the “cry it out” method, but someone had suggested that to me so he can learn to self soothe and if nothing else is working.

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It’s so hard isn’t it. A few things that calm my baby a little bit are a spinning sensory light in a dark room that he likes to follow with his eyes. Dipping his dummy in gripe water helps him to take it and soothes him a little. Putting him in the sling and offering the dummy too and dancing whilst in the sling. Sometimes even some full naked skin to skin time helps, I think sometimes his clothes irritate him and he gets very warm when he’s in a crying fit. I get that sometimes it’s so bad that nothing will help though. Sending love as I am going through the same and it’s really really tough x

i had to bounce on a yoga ball/ exercise ball whenever my LO was colicky. i also cut out dairy from my diet (bc im breastfeeding) and it seemed to really him.

i also heard putting your baby in a warm bath has helped people. i never tried it but ive heard positive things 🤷‍♀️

Grip water works great, but the only thing that calmed my daughter every time was running the kitchen sink (other sinks didn't work) it is still my seacret weapon now, even when she's almost 1

Warm bath time was the only thing that helped my baby. I know the pain sometimes screaming episodes would last hours and it’s exhausting and heart breaking! But baths did help! Colic screaming has calmed down now but witching hour at about 5 o clock in evening is still bad and she 13 weeks now x

So lately my baby wont cry if the vacuum cleaner is on, maybe because she doesn't want to cry over it?😂 Everytime I vacuum she stops crying and just chills,,,until I turn it off. So when I need to clean/do something real quick I turn it on and get stuff done

I guess it's the ultimate white noise machine 😂😂😂

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