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Yes! I do vaguely (I must've blocked it out mostly, thanks for reminding me!) remember the witching hour! So much fussing, SO much nursing! ugh! Sorry mama, hope she gets through this quickly and you can catch a break!

Yes! J did. Every day from 4/5 until bedtime. It was rough!! Hopefully it will be short lived!

Yep from 4pm until bedtime was no fun for a while!

@mrskc: I hope it stops waaaay before 9 weeks for you as well!

Yup, from about 6pm-10pm, cluster nursing and screaming on repeat until she crashed.

Yup!!! LO 1's was like your DD , from 5pm till about well past midnight she was just awwwful. Not that she wasn't fussy during the day but it was just super worse during the witching hours. I think hers ended somewhere around 3-4 months?

With LO 2,hers is from about 9-11pm ish. If she is not asleep by 9 she will scream and scream. So with no exception I make sure we're in the bedroom, lights off, sound machine on by 8:30 pm the latest!!!

We did a lot of rocking/bouncing infront of a mirror with DD through this! DS only did it a couple nights, but girlie was a month or so.

My LO is two weeks old and she has a witching "hour" from around 10:30pm to 3:00am everyday. Nothing seems to console her during this time!

However the rest of the day she sleeps like an angel! Good 3 hour stretches most of the time, sometimes up to 5! Inbetween she just wakes up to eat and promptly falls asleep again. When she does stay awake for a while in the day she is happy to look around the room and isn't fussy at all. She's such a good baby except for that 4-5 hour stretch at night.

Yes, and it was way longer than an hour!

Omg yes it was awful! We had our "routine" revert night to help though. Around 6 we went up to our bedroom and turned on white noise super loud, swaddled her and nursed/held her paci for her and she slept in my arms until 9 or 10 when I would gently lie her down! Luckily once she was asleep she was out an easy to get back down in between feeds. It got significantly better as time wore on. I would say by 6-8 weeks it was over completely. Rough times though for a while. I dreaded the end of the day. I found taking a shower and relaxing myself before having to go into the battle zone as I called it really helped!

With LO1 he fussed every evening with LO2, not so much.

Look up " Period of purple crying". It's a DVD we give parents in the NICU and it describes how common being fussy and crying certain times of the day is and why it happens.

Yes, from around 6pm-10pm every evening! I just kept nursing, because I figured she was hungry!

@mrskc: bumping. When did this end for you?

@mrskc: thanks! I didnt remember this with dd1 but i re-read my posts from that due date board and i did mention a witching hour for her too! I def don't remember it though.