Anyone’s Baby Started Screaming Early Evening?
My baby is 10 weeks today and for the last few weeks he’s been having screaming fits early evening after his feeds until bedtime. From about 6 till about 9 or 10. Its after his feed and he screams like he’s in pain, goes all stiff and rigid and just screams and screams!! He’s had diarrhea too so we thought it was his food, so we’ve changed from easy digest cow & gate formula to normal cow & gate but it hasn’t helped (couldn’t breastfeed as milk never came in properly). He screams during the day in spells too but mainly early evening. He was such a good baby for the first few weeks but somethings changed and is hurting him. Doctor just says he could have picked up a germ or a virus or something and just to leave it longer but i feel so sorry for him when he’s crying like that. You can see somethings hurting him. He never does it at his midnight, 4am or 8am feeds though so not sure what’s up. Anyone else had anything similar with their baby screaming for what seems like no reason? I was thinking maybe it’s colic but some days he’s fine! Thinking of changing his formula again to Aptimel or something. Advice please?
Sounds very much like colic especially if it’s happening in the early evening about 7ish? Sounds very much like what i experienced with my son at that age. You can see that something is hurting him does he often draw his little legs up and try to curl up? that is before he goes all rigid? If it is colic then it is easily fixed. ( Your doctor doesn’t sound too good with children BTW, maybe time you changed) The first time i went to my doctor with this problem she prescribed a colic medicine and honestly it really worked well in a couple of days the baby was crying less and sleeping well. Often young babies digestive systems aren’t mature enough to cope and you get problems like this particularly at the end of the day. Also try massaging the ba
bys tummy in gentle round motions and to soothe him lay him across your arm his head should be lying across the palm of your hand his stomach supported by your forearm that way you can walk about with him gently rubbing his back back and fourth It can help him if his little stomach is sore. I don’t think changing formula will help too much as that could be upsetting for him too, try some anti colic medicine. Good luck!
Hi, your son may have colic. it sounds exactly like what my son had. we tried everything, gripe water, infacol, nothing really helped much. he just cried and cried, no matter what we did. eventually we started giving him a dose of calpol before his feed and this seemed to help. not everytime but enough to take the pressure off for a while.
i know its not much comfort now but it does stop as quickly as it started. one day he just didn’t do it and that was it.
if its gets too much to handle then go to your gp (there is nothing wrong with admitting a colicky baby is hard work, any mother who has been through the same thing will understand), there are lots of things to try but not all of them work for all babies, you just have to keep trying different things till something works.
oohh, a friend of mine does baby massage with her baby and she swears by it. says it helps everything from colic and wind to colds and coughs, you could give that a go.
hope this helps. good luck. Luci
Take him to a homeopath/naturopath if the advise you get do not help – stay away from doctors – all they do is guess work. Sorry to all the docs out there!
Also try goat milk in stead of cow milk formula. Make sure you wind him property – carry on for 20 min if you must after each feed. Rub castor oil on his tummy – always clockwise, then try to keep his tummy warm with a bean bag/hot water bottle, but don’t make it too hot. (Low temp is OK) Will also help to get rid of the winds.
Buy Inner Health Powder for Kids from your chemist. It says from 3months on, but I have given it to my 2 week old (recommended by Homeopath) and it helped a lot. Depending no blood type, the cow milk can cause both diarrhoea as well as constipation and obviously a lot of pain. Try this for 2 weeks and see what happens. Good luck!
If he doesn’t have a fever or sounds congested or runny nose then I doubt its a virus.
He could just be going through the normal evening fussy period. My son was done it by 10 weeks but maybe yours is going through it now instead of earlier. Try some gas drops (gripe water works wonders) and keep patting him until he burps. I wouldn’t keep changing formula on your little bub though this quickly. Try keeping him on what he’s on now, or the easy digest.
It’s just a faze and it will pass eventually. If the doctor doesn’t think he has a milk allergy then its probably only trapped gas.