Baby cries all evening please help....

Lalaladybird

My dd is 2 months old. She's bathed, fed and tucked down at 7pm but willl she sleep? Will she hell!

She will finally drop off at around 9pm through sheer exhaustion for about an hour.

She gets plenty of structured sleep and feeds and stimulation throughout the day but evenings are a complete nightmare. I've just paid £30 to get a professional maternity nurses advise but it hasn't helped....my OH will be so annoyed at me wasting money on something that has got us nowhere.

Night after night this goes on. She's good through the night from 11pm onwards but the evenings are awful. She's on gaviscon for reflux so it's not that as she is fine through the day. She has a full tummy, she's winded, she's had plenty of cuddles and I'm back and forth so many times popping the dummy back in that I'm getting quite a workout! (every cloud...:p)

I need some advise please cos this is mentally and physically so tiring.....

Glamazon

I had this - 3 hours every night. With us it was reflux & Gaviscon helped.

Perhaps its colic if the reflux is controlled?

Have you tried Infacol or gripe water?

ETA -It does get better, I promise

xmaslolly76

La la has she always been like this or has it recently started i'm wondering if she has the dreaded colic and if so it should go away at about 12 wks old. My DD suffered terrible with it every evening at the same each night for at least 2-3 hrs and it really wears you down.

dawn_rose

hiya hun my lil one is 6weeks old and does this 2. she also has the gaviscon for reflux. What sort of cry is it is it a pain high pitched cry, does your lo bring knees up if so it may be colic or lo might just not be ready to be left yet n want a snuggle. all babies are different my three are all so different. hope you manage get to the bottom of it soon. big hugs it doesnt last forever but i know the feelings your facing.

vodooelephant

I didnt want to read and not comment.

You baby is only 2 months old - baby may not be ready for a 7pm bed time if she is awake and crying for 2 hours.

My twins are nearly 20 mths now and i do remember you just want them to sleep through!!!

one did at 6 weeks but the second didnt untill 3 months - he use to be up till 10 last feed then he would sleep untill 7.

I do know a strict bath / bottle / bedtime song while carry to bed helped a huge amount... so they knew what was comming.

Good luck with your little one - there are not little for long!

SuzyWuzy_2

I echo what Dawn said about the colic, its normally a piercing cry with their knees brought up towards their chest.

Is she ready for sleep at 7:30 when you put her down? you said she sleeps in the day is she getting too much sleep during the day? My youngest hardly slept at all during the day , little 10 minutes naps but she slept through the night by 7 weeks.

Good luck

Lalaladybird

I'm not sure if it is colic, she doesn't bring her knees up, it is a persistent waaaha waaaha waaaha cry:eek: and she really screws her little face up. She will stop when I rub her back or pick her up, but not always. The only thing I don't do/haven't tried is to let her cry, maybe I should but I find that hard, I go to her as soon as she starts up again....every 2 blasted minutes!

I have tried letting her stay up in her bouncy chair and she does stop crying but she yawns and her eyes look so sleepy I'm sure it is sleep she needs.

She is on a sort of 3 hourly routine through the day so she has about 4 hours sleep in total through the day 7am-7pm. So I think she probably needs from 7pm-7am (waking for feeds) at her age....she does seem to disagree though!

go_cat

Our son had this from around the same age.

he would cry continually from 6.30 until 10pm every night - as a parent it is the most sole destroying awful thing to suffer - you think you are doing something wrong.

He was finally diagnosed with colic - like others have said he was put on gaviscon swapped to Dr brown bottles plus infacol at every feed.

It does and did get better - we found white noise ( washers, hoovers etc ) helped at least it stopped the screaming for a bit

If you are getting frustrated like I did with the noise put the baby somewhere safe and walk away i had to do that lots as did my DH

If you are BF keep off spicy foods or anything that may get into your milk and upset their tummy.

Good luck and (((( hugs )))))

Js_Other_Half

A Fisherprice battery operated cradle swing was my sanity saver when DS was small - worth a try if nothing else works?

JBD

LaLaLadybird, I agree, you may be trying to put her down too early. What I used to do [which I know is different from most people]was keep them downstairs with me until about 10.30, which gives you time to play, cuddle, sort out their wind, cluster feed etc. Then I would start to get them ready for bed about 10.30, change nappy, feed [I always gave extra ounce as I bottlefed] give gripe water, get as comfy as possible then settle them in cot [say by 11.30]. After 5 or 6 weeks they were all sleeping through from 12- 6am then I gradually bought their bedtime forward. As they started on solids they would eventually drop their late night feed, so eventually they would sleep from say 8pm-7am [not that they never woke up of course ] but I found it was quite easy to actually get their longest sleep during the actual night , rather than evening.

onlyroz

It's a rare baby that will sleep through at 2-months. It's also not uncommon for a baby to be whingy in the evening - when they're at the most tired. I'd recommend long evening breast-feeding sessions, or putting the baby into a sling/carrier so that you can get on and do other things - and then putting the baby down "for the night" much later on.

I really wouldn't try to impose a proper bed-time routine for another few months yet - then their tummies will be big enough for them to go for most of the night without waking up starving hungry.