Hello!!
Any one got any tips for helping a 3 week old baby who screams pretty much all night and won’t be put down please? I realise this could be normal behaviour at this age but it is really starting to affect us. Any tips gratefully received. Hate seeing the little one so distressed.
Hi mummy, it’s tough being a new parent! Each stage passes though and they grow too quickly.
I don’t want to sound patronizing but is he/she hungry/ too cold/ too warm? Or could it be colic (I presume that that’s the case), as soon as we were out of the hospital I used bio Gaia probiotics and also gas drops. I’d recommend both if your not using them already. Also do you swaddle? It worked wonders with my son.
Hey hey! Many thanks for your reply. No worries, wasn’t patronising. No this happens after and during the evening/night feeds. I am thinking it could be colic. I think his temperature is ok too other than when he works himself up and is warm (we put the fan on him or take off his clothes. It’s so heartbreaking seeing them so distressed and not knowing if you are doing the right thing to help!
Swaddling only works when he is calm as he breaks out of it otherwise
I would say colics. I was breastfeeding my baby girl and switched her to enfamil gentelease and that worked magic. Maybe you can give something like that a try?
Thanks ThatgirlRiv. I will try that!
Ugh the first bit is so so tough so I really feel for you. Again I really recommend swaddling. White noise we found amazing (should be as loud as their crying apparently!) and I would see a gp if it doesn’t get better because it’s really important you get some sleep too. Sending lots of best wishes!
Thank you Eme3sh. Last night swaddling worked as he was calm when he went down and ended sleeping for 4 and a half hours! Bonus. Will keep trying with it and will go to the GP if things don’t improve.
Hi
My baby is 2 weeks old and we were having the same issue! After a feed he would scream the place down, and wouldn't settle, by the time he calmed it was time for his next feed, so it was a vicious cycle!
What I've done is firstly, infacol incase it was colic, and then I've distinguished between night and day massively for him, nighttime is almost silent and really dark, day time is full of noise and light! Also with his night time feeds I try to make sure to feed him when he's showing hunger cues and not by the time he's crying (I'm a light sleeper so easier for me than others I assume) although sometimes he will cry but he can still be distracted while the milk is cooling, this way he takes most of his night feeds half asleep, and goes straight back off to bed after!
He's not completely there yet, we still have a good scream trying to get him to bed at first, but more often than not now he is content between feeds and goes right back off to bed.
Hope I haven't jinxed it 😂
Good luck!
Thank you JasmayTara. Really interesting what you are doing. We are trying some of that too. Makes complete sense. I’m not the lightest sleeper in the world. My husband hears him before me! Usually it takes an earthquake to wake me! Getting better tho.
According to the book that I have it’s really common for babies to cry a lot in the evening between 3 and 6 weeks, I had it with my first and we thought it was probably colic, once she was a month old we used gripe water which seemed to help a bit but she still cried a lot. It did get better after a few weeks though!
Thank you Rosieroses. I am hoping to try gripe water as he turns 4 weeks on Wednesday. Yes I am also keeping my fingers crissed for the day it begins to improve x
Hello all. Thanks again for you advice and support. Last night was much better as the little man was calmer. As I said previously swaddling helped Him sleep longer I think. Was grateful he let me wrap him up!! Let’s hope we can get a little run of good nights going with all this advice! XX
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