Okay, so we have found something to alleviate our daughter's awful tummy troubles (it's a product called Colief which breaks down some of the lactose in her formula) and her screaming in pain night after night has calmed into regular newborn fussing and crying all evening.... which is a real improvement but is still exhausting!

I understand that this is what babies do and that all babies go through this to some degree or another. Ours starts at about 6.30pm - refusing to sleep, getting overtired and fussing - and goes through to 11pm (or at least it has followed this pattern the last three nights), with short bouts of full on screaming but mostly just crying and fussing.

I have heard that this behaviour peaks at 6 weeks then starts to tail off, heading towards 3 months. Was this true for your LO? LO is 4.5 weeks - I can cope if I have an end date in sight! Oh and how much worse is it going to get???

I am finding it really hard to deal with to be honest. I mean, it's much better than the pain-screaming but it does wear really thin. Last night I had a bit of a breakdown and cried harder than she did.... I really, really wish it would stop.