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What
do you guys do when LO is fussy? Emily is fussy every
afternoon/evening. She sucks at her hands, so I'm convinced she's hungry
and wants another bottle even if she just ate an hour 1/2 before or so.
My mom insists that she can't be hungry. We tried her paci, playing on
the floor mat, burping, walking around, rocking in the swing, you name
it. I'm about to go postal on my parents. They take her because she's just crying in my arms. I'd like to just give her a bottle. She's more awake in the afternoon and evening, couldn't that make her more hungry?
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Re: help!
I can't say that I have anything that would help, everything you said you tried, would be what I was going to suggest.
I hope it gets better soon.
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1. cluster feeding to stock up for the night (Margot did this and ate A LOT in the evenings and slept through the night or woke once). My pedi said they need to eat frequently and ESP in the evening if they're sleeping a lot at night without eating.
2. it's the "witching hour". Some babies (ok, a lot of newborns) are just fussy in the evening. Pretty much always at dinner time. Nice! Lol we would take turns waking with Margot while the other ate dinner. She loved us taking her outside for a walk too.
3. she has gas. Try mylicon drops - they were a lifesaver for us many times!!
4. she's tired and fighting sleep. The bouncing and walking would help with this too.
basically, it was a lot of trial and error for us, but we always started with trying to burp, then oferring food again. Reading this brought back some memories
Around 2.5-3.5 months, Margot finally stopped her evening fussiness. Hang in there, Mama! And if you think she's hungry, feed her!!!! My MIL and Grandma used to tell me Margot couldn't be hungry already because she just ate, yet when I put her on the boob anyways she pretty much attacked it! It drove me nuts when they would say that!!!! They've since admitted that it's an old school way of thinking. If the baby is hungry, the baby is hungry 
Yes yes yes!!!
H is currently finally feeding Ava to calm her down; this is her first stretch of the night when she needs a little to eat and dozes off for 4-5 hours.
Hang in there mama. I swear Ava has witching hour from 4-7 and fights sleep from 7-8. Legit.
I totally agree with Kristen on all points!
Eventually, I could tell which problem Nate was having, based on routine/time of day/type of cry, but in the beginning, I always checked to see if he was hungry first. The first weeks, if he was hungry and I ran my thumb across his cheek, he would start rooting. He was hungry often. My mom joked that every time he cried, I put a bottle in his mouth. Almost every time it worked.
If his tummy felt hard, I would assume gas, give him Mylicon, and hold him tummy-to-tummy.
Otherwise we went with to 5 S's: swaddle, side lying, swing, shush and suck. That usually could calm him down so that he could fall asleep.
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