Witching hours / colic

My little girl is 5 weeks old next Tuesday and since week 3 the evenings have been so bad where she will be unsettled, screaming, fussy on the bottle, going bright red, not sleeping between 6-11pm and it’s honestly so exhausting and draining

We have changed her milk to a comfort milk and tried every remedy for colic going but was anyone else’s baby the same and noticed a difference or improvement as they have got older? Everyone keeps saying it will get better and with my 1st baby she was colicky but not half as bad the crying lasted for around 1 hour where as this is all evening / night

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Hey, my baby is 7 weeks now and it has just stopped she would be from 7-11pm upset and unsettled - I didn’t change any milk or anything I bathed her when she started to get a little bit aggy, every night. I used soaps every few days but most the time just bathed her in water, this seemed to calm her dramatically and now she has a bath before bed every night and sleeps 10-5am. Deffo try the bath, hope it works for you as I know how stressful and exhausting it is. I wish I knew sooner about the baths, would have stopped an upset mama!!

My daughter is the same she’s 8 weeks old now and getting a little better doesn’t last so long in the evening some nights it was till like midnight but now she usually stops about 9-10-11ish my health visitor said the other day usually gets better by it’s self around 12 weeks x

My boy is 7 weeks I had to change his milk and he's so bad at night time between 6-11 also just trying to ride it through as they grow out of it from around this age onwards but it's so stressful isn't it I find gripe water helps and like the comment before baths are a dream for calmness. Hope it does last to long for you colic is awful my girl wasn't this bad I think it's because my boys a ganet he's a big boy and drinks loads xxx

Thanks guys it’s just so heartbreaking listening to the screams we try to bath every other night around 8/9ish which calms her down but then soon as she’s out of it she’s screaming again 😵‍💫 when you are in the thick of it just feels like it’s never going to end and I hate wishing her life away but I’m just not enjoying this newborn stage at all 😢

I also found that he was actually hungry still after his feed so meant I had to up his ounces as what he was on wasn't enough and that extra ounce made some difference also

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