Witching hours

My newborn is 3 weeks old on Monday. She’s very sleepy, sleeps most of the day I’m waking her every 3 hours to feed. She’s now 9lb 7oz so midwife has said we can leave her to wake herself now. But the last few nights she’s been awake from around 6pm to 9pm where nothing settles her ?
Can I assume these are the witching hours? Tonight has been the worst and even an extra feed didn’t help !

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Yep, classic. 3 hours is pretty tame 🫠🙃 lol. My first screamed from 5pm till 11.30pm and then just fell asleep like nothing happened lol.

It lasts a couple weeks. Hang in there. You're doing great. If you breastfeed just give boob as much as you can. It keeps them quiet 😂❤️ xx

Same here between half 4 and 10pm. Non stop. Nothing is working x

We've had the same the last few nights, ours will be three weeks on Sunday. The first night was 8pm-2am. We've found that bouncing with him on a yoga ball helps him settle but it seems to be getting better with each day so fingers crossed it's just a short term phase😊 🤞

I did also talk to a support worker who suggested turning the TV off in the evening as overstimulation may be contributing to the situation

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