6 week baby struggle help!

Hit 6 weeks with my little boy, he’s really irritable crying if not feeding, has all of a sudden started to get reflux symptoms, will fall asleep during feeds of a day the second you move he wakes up, nothing is working. He cry’s during burping and I don’t get burps out of him🙃 is it normal? Night feeding is a lot sleeps in his bed and hour if that

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Our little girl was 6 weeks yesterday- going through the exact same thing! Refusing all her naps, cries a lot, burping causes a meltdown, nighttime’s are hard took us until midnight to get her to sleep! Apparently peaks week 6 to 8 then can get better! X

Same here😢
All these is stealing newborn moments away
Making me so sad that I’m not able to help him with whatever is bothering him

Mine turned 6 weeks yesterday and we are going through the same. I get anxiety for the night with witching hour/s nothing seems to work. The health visitor says this is normal and it will get better at 8 weeks 😵‍💫🙄
Apparently their only way to communicate is crying so they even do it when they are happy which I thought was weird.
Sending hugs to anyone in the same position we have got this and it will get better 💗

Our 6 week old is just like this, we do have suspected CMPA so we have a lot of crying but we have the good ole witching hour in the evening and can take hours to settle. It peaks between 6-8 weeks and will get better. Xx

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