r/baby

Hi,

My 6 month old baby is very happy and nice during the day but as soon as the clock hits 17:00 plus minus 5 minuhe turns into a screeming demon.

Flexing every muscle and flailing while screeming and crying. This continues untill we manage to get him to sleep for the night.

He is not hungry and nap schedule makes no diffrence. He used to have periouds of PURPLE crying when younger. This is not exactly the same as I can get him to stop screeming for short periods (10-60 sec) before he starts again.

Pediatrician has found nothing wrong so far. Has anyone had a similar experience? Im going crazy spending my every eavning fruitlessly trying to console him.

My daughter is 6 weeks old and primarily formula fed. She’s gaining weight well and her stools are generally soft/normal, but she has a really hard time pooping.

She will strain, turn red, grunt and sometimes scream while trying to poop and it can last 10–15 minutes. Sometimes she even seems like she’s trying to poop while she’s feeding. It’s honestly heartbreaking to listen to because she sounds so uncomfortable.

Her pediatrician thinks it’s infant dyschezia/immature coordination since her stools are soft and she’s otherwise growing well. We’ve tried burping, bicycle legs, rocking, warm cloths, mylicon drops etc., but I’m wondering if there could be something else contributing reflux, gas, formula intolerance, etc.
She’s currently on **Similac Advance ready to feed**. She had the same issue with Emfamil gentalese, Similac total 360. We recently switched her bottle nipple to the Philips Avent Extra Slow Flow because she was gulping and getting very gassy with the faster flow, and she actually seems much more comfortable with the slower nipple.

For those of you who formula-feed:
Did your baby go through a phase of screaming/straining like this despite having soft stools?
Did it eventually improve on its own?
Did changing formulas actually help?
Has anyone tried Gentle Comfort, Alimentum, Enfamil Reguline, or Bobbie for similar symptoms?
Did probiotics help at all?
I’m trying not to change a million things at once, but it’s so hard to hear her scream and not wonder if there’s something we can do to make her more comfortable. ❤️

Anyone else's 6 week old literally just not sleep during the day??

Mine can stay awake 7-8 HOURS and before anyone says wake windows I know 😭 I'm trying to put him to sleep, he just won't fucking sleep.

Today he's slept maybe 2 hours total since 8am. I've spent basically the whole day trying to get him down. Boob, formula bottle, rocking, shushing, swaddle, dummy, dark room, white noise, holding him, walking around. He'll sometimes fall asleep for like 10-20 mins then his eyes are open again. He even wakes up while I'm still holding him so it's not just transferring him that's the problem.

He has reflux and is on omeprazole which has actually helped heaps so I don't even know anymore.

He sleeps overnight but honestly I feel like that's probably because he's absolutely wrecked after being awake basically all day 😂

Has anyone actually had a newborn stay awake for 7-8 hours like this?? Not just fighting naps for an hour or having short naps, I mean literally HOURS and HOURS despite trying to get them to sleep.

Did you ever figure out why? Did you see a paediatrician about it? I'm at the point where I'm wondering if this is actually normal because I'm losing my fucking mind trying to make this kid sleep 😭

Anyone else have an older baby still not sleeping through the night!? My babygirl is 10.5 months and still wakes up at least twice a night- much much not lately with teething and developmental milestones.

I’m feeling like I’m doing something wrong

I've had two boys two years apart that have been almost identical. The first one was formula fed and the second was exclusively breastfed. They've both been total chunks but the breastfed baby is even chunkier than the formula baby, which struck me as odd because I thought formula was higher calorie.

Anyone have similar or opposite experiences?

My 10-month-old is OBSESSED with standing lately. She constantly wants to be held up but can’t stand independently yet. She’s also not crawling (has PT eval for this soon) and gets SO frustrated because she desperately wants to move! She used to happily sit and play, but now she doesn’t even want to sit down. 😂

Anyone else have a baby go through this around 10 months? Did they end up crawling/walking soon after? Any tips for keeping them entertained when they just want to move?

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My daughter is almost 5 months old and was an extremely chill, easy baby until around 3 months. Since then she has become very fussy and difficult to settle.

She cries/screams a lot during wake windows, gets extremely excited, moves her legs frantically, blows raspberries, puts everything in her mouth, gets distracted constantly, arches her back/looks behind her, and seems irritated especially at night. Feeding and settling have also become much harder—she may seem hungry but then fight the bottle/breast or keep moving around.

She is otherwise active, alert, interactive, laughing, making sounds and developing normally.

The biggest issue is honestly my anxiety. I have started watching every single movement she makes and analysing everything, constantly worrying that normal behaviour could be neurological. I never used to find parenting this difficult, and now I feel anxious almost every day.

Did anyone else's previously chill baby suddenly become extremely fussy/active around 4–5 months? And did it eventually settle down? I’d really appreciate hearing your experiences.