Crying
Hello, my little boy is just over 9 weeks. I feel like all he's done since around 4 weeks is cry.
He cries after every feed, although it is worse in the afternoon and evening. I am expressing and he is exclusively having my breast milk in the mam anti colic bottles. I try and pace feed him, keep him upright during and after a feed etc. He doesn't seem to struggle with wind as he is always pooping and he will burp after a feed. He spits up after feeding but I wouldn't say it was an excessive amount.
Once he finally goes to sleep around 11pm he is fine through the night, usually wakes around 3 or 4pm and then goes back to sleep after a nappy change with no fuss.
Could this be colic or silent reflux? I would have thought if it was he would also suffer during night feeds?
Is he just fussy?
I'm at my wits end, please tell me it gets better and share any tips please 🙏💙
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Could it be a milk allergy?
My baby is EBF and weeks used to give him a bottle of expressed milk of an evening. He was the same, crying at every feed, it was like a battle to get him to feed whether it was on breast or bottle (but night feeds he'd usually be fine).
We got referred incase of CMPA and I'd also tried baby gavison incase of silent reflux. The latter didn't do anything and the former the midwife doesn't seem to think it was allergy.
We're almost 13 weeks now and I'd say the last week and a half hasn't gotten sooo much better! I feel like we've gotten over some hurdle and things feel a lot smoother with feeding, but I cant tell you what that hurdle was!
It's either something that passed with age, or, I also noticed he would feed in the day now problem if he fed when asleep/drowsy. So for about a week I only fed him when sleepy/ing to create a positive and calm feeding experience and then the last few days hes been going to boob when awake calmly too
We did stop his bottle feed about 3ish weeks ago which i think was the height of his crying at feeds.
Looking to reintroduce it soon - just want another week to make sure we're defo over the hurdle like I think!
Sorry its not much use, just from my experience its either an age thing or try a week of calm/sleepy feeds if they take them (but warning that sometimes I'd let him sleep on my breast for an hour and a half where he'd at times only suckle or be asleep, and take bits of milk as an when. Id let him be on as long as he wanted to create the positive association without any pressue)
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