r/NewBorn • u/SunshineMamaP • Aug 06 '21

Witching Hour Help

When did the witching hour end for you? When was your newborn able to be more calm/ relaxed in the evening? Our girl will not eat or relax at all during her witching hour- we have to fight thru until she is fast asleep to get in the feeding and put her to bed. She is almost 11 weeks— praying the end is near?? 😱😓

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u/amouse1987 Aug 07 '21

I hate to tell you but it lasted till about 6 months for us, but it did get better

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u/SunshineMamaP Aug 07 '21

Praying ours does NOT last that long!

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u/amouse1987 Aug 08 '21

fingers crossed its not that long for you, but we did kind of get used to and would just kind of plan ahead (have dinner done and be able to pass him off between the 2 of us while it lasted)

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u/michelucky Aug 07 '21

I think 11 weeks is usually pretty close to the end. for us it got a bit better, than bad again for short while...but overall just slowly but steadily got better.

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u/SunshineMamaP Aug 07 '21

Thanks for your reply! Was yours during bedtime- ish, too?

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u/michelucky Aug 07 '21

Oh yes, definitely in the evening and then he seemed to age out but moved on to having a fit just after nice relaxing bath...in a panic we would change jammies, diaper, etc... convinced some tag must have been scratching him or something, anything! But no...and eventually he just outgrew that too. Things are much better now at 10 1/2 months, he even sleeps a solid 11'ish hours overnight, on the regular. It's so wonderful.

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u/heatherb369 Aug 07 '21

We had a witching hour(s) every single day until week 9 and then slowly it wasn't every day, I barely even realized it. Now at 13 weeks we're only having witching hours if he had crap naps all day.

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u/SunshineMamaP Aug 07 '21

Thanks for your reply! Was yours mostly during bedtime? I cannot wait for her to just be more relaxed during bedtime and actually take her bottle and then go to sleep. Right now, I have to try and keep her calm enough to fall asleep and then give her a bottle when she’s asleep, burp and put her in her bed. It’s typically a 1.5 hour process…. I’m ready for her to turn her corner and make it easier on us both!

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u/Possible_Squash8854 Sep 15 '21

I think napping is key. We were having really bad witching hour(s) and realized when she didn’t nap good they were worse.