Witching Hours?

Question

Baby will be 4 weeks Wednesday - Shes usually a pretty good sleeper sleeping 3-6 hours at a time. Every evening between 5-10 she gets fussy - Feed, Change, Gas Drops, Rocking, Singing etc Repeat she will take a 10 min cat nap and start crying where she makes herself breath heavy.  I've tried putting her in her swing, boppy and crib. Finally about 9/10 ish she will fuss and be out til 3/4 AM.
Any ideas on how to help calm her at this age since shes too little to self soothe?

Answer

My LO was exactly like this with exactly those witching hours. He didn't grow out of it until he was 6 months but he had reflux issues. The only thing I found to help my LO during those hours was to take him into a dark room and bounce him with white noise on or if the weather was good we would go on a long walk which also seemed to relax him. Hope this helps!

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Look up “purple crying”, I found reading about it helped my mental and emotional state. That being said my girls “witching hours” lasted for 6 weeks, same time every evening. I think what helps is different for every baby so you’ll have to try things out but what helped mine was being held football style and being rocked in the bathroom?? I don’t know if it was the mirror or what but she liked that room 🤷🏻‍♀️

Witching Hours?

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