Please help — colic / hours of crying every evening
My little girl is 9 weeks old and we’re really struggling with what seems to be colic. I’m hoping someone who’s been through similar can tell me what helped, or even just reassure me that it eventually gets better!
She’s generally much happier in the morning, but from around 5pm she can become really unsettled and cry/scream for hours. She squirms, tenses up and seems really uncomfortable. Sometimes it feels like absolutely nothing I do settles her.
Her daytime naps are also awful at the moment. She’ll often only sleep for around 10 minutes before waking back up, despite me trying everything to help her nap. I’m wondering if being overtired is making the evenings even worse.
She’s mainly breastfed, is gaining weight well and feeds plenty. I’ve tried burping, bicycle legs, keeping her upright, rocking, walking around, white noise, contact naps etc. Sometimes something works briefly, but nothing consistently helps.
Has anyone had a baby like this? Did anything genuinely make a difference — probiotics, changes to feeding, something for wind/reflux, changing your diet while breastfeeding, or working on naps?
And if your baby had really bad colic, when did you notice it starting to improve? I’m finding the hours of crying every evening really difficult and would love to hear from people who’ve come out the other side ❤️
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My first LG had colic and she settled down crying around 10.5 weeks and my second LG also has had colic and she is just about improving now and she is 10w and 2 days, so hopefully you don’t have long left at all! Promise it gets better, second time round I’ve found it easier as I know it actually does end where first time round it was brutal not knowing if it would!
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You are in the peek fussy stage, we started giving our little one smart strains fussy babies probiotics to our little one at around 3 weeks old which helped, we also gave her dentinox for colic prior to 1 month old, once she hit a month old we used gripe water as it worked much quicker than dentinox for trapped wind both we mixed in a small amount of breastmilk (30ml) in a bottle as it was the only way she would swallow it.
It does get better around 10 weeks as their tummies mature.
The only thing with both probiotics and dentinox is it takes time to build up, I think around a week or two. You may find seeing a baby osteopath in the mean time useful for an immediate relief.
Sounds exactly like mine. She would become unsettled at about 6-7pm and sometimes it would go on til 3am. She also had infant dyschezia and would scream every time she had to poop.
We tried everything (colief, infacol, gripe water, omeprazole, cutting out dairy, separating out hind milk and foremilk, freida windy gasspassers!), we were back and forward to the gp, unfortunately nothing made any difference, and from about 12 weeks she turned a corner and everything got a lot better.
Look up “purple crying”. Apparently it’s just a normal phase for some babies. Doesn’t make it any easier when you’re in the thick of it, but hang in there, it’s probably going to get a lot better with time!
Sounds like my LG.. but it starts from 2/3pm honestly 🫠 it’s so difficult
My LG had colic and it was weeks of absolute hell but I’m here to say it does get better ❤️ she’s 4.5months now and we found it getting better and better from 12 weeks.
We think it was more over tiredness/ over stimulation that affected her most.
Unfortunately we didn’t find much that helped us (apart from trying to make sure she got some sleep and kept wake windows low stim).
I honestly thought it was going to be like this forever but thankfully we turned the corner and have a very happy baby now! Sending you so much love and strength and you WILL get through this. Here if you need a chat because I know how isolating this stage can be xxx
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