6-8 week peak of fussiness? (x-posted on May 2012)

mkflower3000 · July 2012

I'm so frustrated... DD has always been slightly fussy, but over the past week has become increasingly so. She has a really bad period every evening around 7-10PM when she just cries and screams and seems unhappy with everything - she even cries while eating (we know that she doesn't have reflux, and we give her meds for colic, but nothing seems to work)! Now she's also started to be fussy in the mornings... I think it's too early for the next growth spurt (she won't even be 5 weeks until Saturday), but I have read that fussiness often peaks around 6-8 weeks and then starts to decrease.

I was wondering if this has been anyone experience too - a fussy newborn that became happier as time went on? Has anyone else's LO increased in fussiness and then started to improve after this 6-8 week period period? Did they seem to improve follwing the 6 week growth spurt, or sometime later?
I just want so badly to have a happy baby, and it seems like she's always angry about something! I still haven't felt like I could truly enjoy her, and now the only stretch of time when she was a lot more pleasant (the mornings and afternoons) seems to be diminishing too. I know that it's silly to set an age marker for myself like that, and that infants don't run by clocks and calendars, but I'm kind of desperate and grasping at straws here...

TIA!

megann831 · July 2012

I think all babies tend to be fussy at night, so you may not get out of that 7-10 period. DS was 7 weeks yesterday, at about 3 weeks he gradually started to get pretty unhappy most of the time but since this weekend he seems to be must more pleasant (I really hope I'm not jinxing things!). He is also showing clear signs when he is tiered so I put him right to sleep. This weekend he also started struggling to drink his bottles, I FF. I thought about it and at night or when we're out he's fine, so I'm thinking maybe the water I use from the frig is too cold. It never bothered him before, but I guess it's possible. His last bottle I left the water out for a while and he drank it fine. Does she cry through all bottles? If there are some that she drinks fine maybe think if you do anything differently with those.

mwlove · July 2012

My DD has started being more fussy this week at 4 weeks old. She was being fussy between 6 and 9, but then sometimes she waits till the middle of the night. We go to the doctor tomorrow so I'm anxious to see if it's reflux, gas, colic, or just fussiness. I just feel so bad because I want to help her and nothing helps but nursing her, which then she still pulls off crying.

lucylove619 · July 2012

DD was always a little fussy, and weeks 7-8 were just awful. I kept thinking, everyone says this gets better but she's getting worse! We had night sleep regression and she was generally just not happy. We seem to have turned a corner right before her 2 month appointment though, she's been sleeping great at night and much happier during the day! I felt the same way, that the fun hours with her were getting less and less, but now we're starting to have much more fun! I did start putting her down for naps about an hour after she's been awake (that's about all she can handle right now) which I think has helped a lot, and I also cut dairy out of my diet. I don't know if it's one of these things or if she's just starting to outgrow the fussiness, but I'm not taking any chances to find out! Every week I kept saying 'this is the week she'll start to be happy' and it was so frustrating when it didn't happen, especially when people kept telling me it would at 6 weeks and that's when things started to get even worse for us. Hang in there!

purplechic7105 · July 2012

Hang in there....my little guy was super fussy weeks 5-7 and then increasingly got more into a routine. It will get better, promise. He's 3 months now and is so much fun!! You are doing great, keep loving on your baby, she'll come around.

Christina_Diane · July 2012

All babies are different. My super easy, non fussy baby has been super fussy at night since about 11 weeks and on.

meggiepoo87 · July 2012

Yes. I read an article that said crying peaks at 6 weeks.

mkflower3000 · July 2012

Thanks everyone! I'm hoping for the best... I had my sights set on improvement at 6 weeks, but now I'm just going to try to make it to 8, and then to 10. I don't even mind if she is fussier in the evening, but it's just hard to deal with an infant who's crying about 90% of the time that she's awake (with the exception of when she's eating).

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