Why does he cry every night from 8pm-10pm??????

[dollych]

Hi Girls,

Just wanted some advice and to ask if any of your Lo's are doing the same?.
My DS is fine all day and only cries when he is tired or hungry. He feeds every 3-4 hrs during the day and is fine and has one night feed and sleeps for 4-5hrs at night, but at about 8pm every night about 30 mins after his bottle her starts to cry and doesn't stop for 2 hrs!!. He gets to screaming point and just won't stop then all of a sudden he just stops and goes to sleep!!.
I've tried everything.......
Winding during the bottle
Winding for 30 mins after the bottle and keeping him upright
Dentinox, infacol and Gaviscon
Rocking him, cuddling etc

I've heard about the witching hour, could it be that?. I don't think it's colic as he only cries for 2hrs at 8pm
Thanks xx

 

[phineas]

Possible witching hour. Have u tried putting him down to sleep? For example, dd drinks a bottle at 7.30 and come 8 she's crying cause she's tired. I can usually force her to stay wake until half, some nights 9 but by 9 if she's not lay into her bed in her sleeping bag she will have a melt down! I can lie her down while she's screaming hysterically and put on the white noise and with 3 minutes she's asleep!

 

[lhancock90]

Colic? Ivy had a "fussy" period of time every night for a while xx

 

[Bunanie]

I went thru the same with mine, it's the witching hour, it's the worst at 6 weeks then starts to get better..
Your LO could be tired as well around that time, that's why most parenting books recommended 7pm bedtime. DD still cries and cries if I try to keep her up after 7, although she only woke from her 30min nap at 6.

 

[DittyByrd]

Swaddle! Swing! Colic hold! Pacifier/comfort suck!

 

[Emerald87]

Yup that sounds like the arsenic hour.

Try googling/youtube-ing "happiest baby on the block". Got my LO to stop crying quick smart.

 

[izzlesnizzle]

I just you tubed happiest baby on the block and watched the Richard and judy clip-I wish i'd done what it suggests! Might have saved me a lot of heartache in the first couple of months. I used to give infacol but it never helped. That's because she didn't have colic looking back. I just didn't know how to settle her. I still don't lol. I just need a video like that for a 9 month old!

 

[mudgekin1989]

I went through that, same time every night, and thought maybe it was colic, gave my son every remedy possible... Nothing worked. I took him to the dr and he had an ear infection, that totally blew my mind, that it only seemed to affect him at a certain time.

 

[Emerald87]

I just you tubed happiest baby on the block and watched the Richard and judy clip-I wish i'd done what it suggests! Might have saved me a lot of heartache in the first couple of months. I used to give infacol but it never helped. That's because she didn't have colic looking back. I just didn't know how to settle her. I still don't lol. I just need a video like that for a 9 month old!

It is pretty frikkin' awesome for the little 'uns Can't help with the 9 month old sorry

 

[Beccaboop]

Little man used to get grumpy and scream a lot between 5 and 7 pm and we tried infracol and it didnt do much so we changed bottles to dr browns and that seems to of helped obvously he still crys ( hes a baby cant stop that) but its not as much as its more whinging than screaming so thats good!

 

[pinklightbulb]

Sounds like witching hour to me. I hope it passes. What worked for me was an earlier bedtime

 

[Snow Owl]

We've had this the last few nights! At the mo he doesn't go down until 11ish and then sleeps till 3/4 for a feed then down till 6/7 and finally fully up at 9.

Do you think it's worth putting him down earlier and then waking for a feed at 11?

 

[Emerald87]

We've had this the last few nights! At the mo he doesn't go down until 11ish and then sleeps till 3/4 for a feed then down till 6/7 and finally fully up at 9.

Do you think it's worth putting him down earlier and then waking for a feed at 11?

We found an earlier bedtime worked - and you can give a dreamfeed at 10.30! That kept my LO asleep.