Constant distress late afternoon/evening

My LO has been screaming for the last few days, it occurs more at night and it can take hours to settle her. Once I settle her to bed she will sleep.

She has hardly cried prior so it has come as quite a shock

I have questioned if it’s teething as she’s always got her hands (or anything she can) in her mouth and making spit bubbles however my family disagree with me. I’ve tried teething granules, teething gels, teething toys, calpol and nothing works.

She always struggles to poo (on pepti 1 formula due to cows milk allergy) however I’m finding even after she finally poos she’s still unsettled.

I’m truly baffled… any advice would be grateful appreciated.
Can colic randomly occur at 3 months as I thought that’s the time it starts to settle…

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My little boy is similar at the moment. I think it may be trapped wind? We’ve gone back onto infacol and I give him a dose of gripe water around lunch time to try and prevent a build up. We are only on day 2 but things were not as bad last night 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
It’s so horrible when they are so distressed and uncomfortable though. Totally hear you xx

We use infacol every feed for a month and still not better. She’s good at bring up the wind too 😩 I’m truly baffled at this point. Hopefully we are both just going through a short phase🫣 we got this gal x

I've read that at 3 months babies have a development leap and can hear/ smell/ see so much more. I think it might be a bit sudden and can be overwhelming so by the end of the day they're just fed up, overstimulated and need comfort.

We aren't quite there yet ourselves, I could very much be wrong, but just some research I've been doing to attempt to prepare for the regressions etc so I'm not sure if this helps offer some reassurance. She might just be learning more and adjusting 🤞

My little girl is 10 weeks and exactly the same. I spoke to the HV and she says it's sounds like colic so started on infacol. She said there is another one you can try Colrelief I think that breaks dow the milk.

I'm really hoping it passes soon as it's so awful to see her go through. She never used to cry before like I have a new baby all of a sudden xx

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Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

AITA

In the uk there is an outbreak of meningitis, in a specific area mainly. My BD has family from that area and decided to go and meet up with them, I said if he does then he cannot have contact with the kids for 7-10 days after incase he picks anything up. Am I being over dramatic? I reallyyy don’t want my young kids getting anything serious

Over supply of milk

I am nearly 5weeks postpartum and I have such a big over supply of BM.
Has anyone donated / sold their supply, if so where do you recommend for this?

I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

Car seat

No idea which car seat to get next. Please hit me with your recommendations, 1year+ (preferably rear facing or 360). Thank you 🫶🏻

Crawling and walking

So my girl is 9 months now and shes great at sitting up and stays on her tummy for awhile but she seems to have no interest in trying to move or crawl or bum shuffle. Shes a big baby always has been but I'm disabled and I feel like it's my fault she's not hitting milestones I feel like there's something I'm not doing and it's making me a bad mum