Witching hour

Been there, done that. I spent many hours rocking and rocking and rocking and rocking some more. It will pass. Stay strong and really appreciate the pleasant moments.

My little girl did this from 5pm to 8pm till about from 2 weeks till about 8 weeks. She still does it now and then but the thing that worked best for me was to hold her in the colic position against my body and pat her bottom while walking around the house. This often calmed her and put her to sleep real fast. :)

Have you watched happiest baby on the block? It is available for purchase at amazon, something like $13. It will teach you great techniques for comforting baby. Good luck mama

Take heart, mommas. It gets better. I know right now it feels like it'll never end and you'll die from sleep deprivation or a psychotic break-or both, but one day you'll realize they've completely stopped and think, "Wow, that wasn't THAT bad. *Okay, you may not think that, but it is possible. Lol. Be strong, ladies! You got this.

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It’ll pass! My bubs was terrible during the witching hr but he stopped around the 10 week mark! Good luck x

My LO was the same until I cut out dairy, sugar and yeast (which is almost everything I know 😒😝😔), only took two nights! He barely fusses now if he does at all.

I always recommend finding a chiropractor that specializes in infants! My husband was adjusted at like 3 months old so when our daughter seemed to be having digestive issues and was exclusively breast fed, we decided to take her to be adjusted and it worked like magic! An experience chiro will just use finger pressure and it only takes about 2 minutes!

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Oh good idea!

Oh my GOSHHHHH my son had this and I haaaated it!!! Our daughter, knock on wood, doesn’t have it. I know you’ve tried everything, but I just have to ask these: Will she eat more? Did she burp? Did you try that silly Windi thing? (It’s basically a lubricated fart-straw) My son got happier with some combo of these. And also growing. ❤️❤️❤️ I’m so sorry! It sucks!!!!!!!! I think he grew out of it at 3 months. The Happiest Baby on the Block video on Amazon is a good thing to try! You can get it on instant streaming. We did have good luck with that. (We used a Velcro swaddle because I can make an origami crane but I cannot swaddle a baby who’s freaking out). Also the chiropractor idea is another good one. I hope and pray something helps! ❤️

Your baby seems to have colic. My LO had the same thing and it would happen around 5 and would have to bounce or keep rocking her somehow . It didn’t always help. But what helped the most was taking her to the chiropractor. She’s perfectly fine now.

My son is 4months old and still does this every night 😔

Check out the wonderweeks app - has all the development leaps in there so you know ahead when Bub has a hard time because there is so much development going on ...

Hi Jessica! So I learned through the sleep training program that I’m doing with my bub that the witching hour is due to either being over tired or being under tired. So by ensuring that your little one is having set naps and enough awake time for her age you can avoid the witching hour. Once I got my little guy on a set schedule no more witching hour! It was awesome.

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I know when my baby needs to nap, but she fights it. Any tips for how to get her to take the nap? And please don't say to "put her down to nap" as she isn't able to out herself to sleep!

My daughter is 3 almost 4 and she still has a witching hour. Now instead of just crying....she screams and stomps. I have a 6 month old as well, he cries at the same time every night....Here is what I think, at least with my kids- it is at 6-7pm, they do this because they are not hungry, but not quite ready for bed either. It is just weird time for them. What I started doing at this time is putting them both in the bath. (Even if it is early) It calms my little guy and my daughter can play in the bath. It has seemed to help with that chaotic "witching" hour. Good luck Mama! You are not alone!

Oh no you are not the only one my son did that, until I started to swaddle him tight while he napped and have a bedtime routine. Every night at 9 or so we take a shower, while I'm applying his lotion I'd give him a massage and feed him right to sleep.

My daughter is 3.5 months old and she still does this. It’s better now that we got her on a nap schedule during the day so she doesn’t get to the point where she’s so overtired at night. It does get better mama!!! Having a bedtime routine also helped A TON!!! If your babe is breastfed, make sure there aren’t any allergies causing gas. I had to cut out gluten and eggs, but once we figured that out she was so much better.

Turning the vacuum on with a swaddle was a godsend for us ! We have a 11 week old , good luck !

We are going through this too. She’s fine during the day but around 6:00 at night she starts crying and fussing and won’t calm down til around 9:00. 😩 hoping this passes soon! She’s 3 months old and it started a couple weeks ago.

My daughter did this and it turned out she was requiring food every other hour. I didn't know a baby could eat that much! I was told the stomach is the size of a marble. It blew my mind how hungry she would get and this is breast and formula fed baby.

Try not to over stimulate with lights and noise during the day! It should pass before then, good luck mama! I remember doing the circus act to get my baby to stop crying too. She may or may not have colic. Also look up the 5 S’s for babies, swaddle, side-stomach position, shush, suck, and swing. One or all five might be needed but if you do these things baby should stop crying. You also have to relax and not tense up during it, baby senses that. Helps comfort them when crying. Helped us out!!!

My daughter is almost 8 months old and she still does that some nights. Me and my husband that giving her a bottle and let her drink that she fell asleep while eating.

A routine is best to get into . My son was like this until I got him into a routine . Now he’s 5 months and goes to bed like a champ and it’s been this way since 3 months

Hi my name is Maria I'm ftm please can u give me some advice on the witching hour thank u

Same for us. We call it the evening rage. Having done this once before I can tell you that all these phases do move on at some point. When you look back it’ll seem like such a short period of time, but boy does it suck right now. Hang in there, sending sympathy.

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When did the witching hour stop For your babies? Mine is 9 weeks and is still very much present in our household lol!!!!

Happiest baby on the block was the best 8$ I spent to help us get through the tough “witching” hour

Dawwww I wonder if she knows it's time to go to sleep and she wants to spend more time with you both and is anxiety crying

My little one would do this but I found it was that he was cluster feeding. He would go 4hours in the mornings and afternoons between feeds then around 5pm he would start screaming between just over an hour to every two hours for feeds up until around midnight. He then started to go between 5-7hours overnight between feeds. It was almost like he knew he was going to go a longer time without so was storing up enough to see him through the night . Is now eleven weeks old and will often go up to 8hours between feeds overnight and he is calmer over his cluster feeds and even spreads them about a bit drinking more each feed instead of as often. Hope this may help?

Omg my LG is 18 weeks and omg she has a witching hour from 4pm-6pm. Absolute nightmare.

Oh mama, this stage is already so hard! You three are doing a great job, just take it day by day and it will pass too! 💗 The best thing I read was to open all curtains in the morning/go outside and at nap and bed time, black out everything. Their biological clocks aren't yet developed, so it can be hard to be tired at the same time as mom and dad.. hang in there. You are doing a great job!!