Peak fussiness at six weeks

[Anonymous]

Did you find this to be true? If so was it six weeks past birthday or past due date?

[Anonymous]

OP,I would gently invite you to step away from over analyzing your baby’s level of fussiness. You will run yourself ragged looking for patterns to emerge and making comparisons with questions like the one you posed. Every day is a new day with a newborn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,I would gently invite you to step away from over analyzing your baby’s level of fussiness. You will run yourself ragged looking for patterns to emerge and making comparisons with questions like the one you posed. Every day is a new day with a newborn.

Cool thanks. If anyone has a genuine answer I would love to discuss.

[Anonymous]

My 2.5 yo seems to be at peak fussiness

Genuinely, though, there is no set timetable or magic formula. If there were, we would all have an easier time with newborns. My first DD was probably peak fussy at 4 months, my second maybe 2 months. A couple years down the road, though, it is mostly a blur. Enjoy your baby and be kind to yourself.

[Anonymous]

For DD1 - Peak fussiness was more around 8 weeks.
For DD2 - She had colic. Fussiness started around 3 weeks and finally started to taper down around 6 months. It was a really hard stretch.

[Anonymous]

My son became less fussy at 5 months. He was still pretty fussy at 16 weeks. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP,I would gently invite you to step away from over analyzing your baby’s level of fussiness. You will run yourself ragged looking for patterns to emerge and making comparisons with questions like the one you posed. Every day is a new day with a newborn.

Cool thanks. If anyone has a genuine answer I would love to discuss.

NP: This WAS a genuine answer, OP.

I found a rough correlation to the “wonder weeks”, but there’s been plenty of hours/days/weeks where it could just have been because it was Tuesday, because full moon, or some kind of juju.

Babies (and toddlers, and tweens, and teens, and adults) are just fussy sometimes. This too, shall pass. If there is something specific you can help with, like pain, you give analgesic. Hungry/angry/tired/lonely - well you help with that if you can. But sometimes, just like you, your baby is going to be in a bad mood.

You will get through, I promise. PP hit the nail on the head saying you could chase your tail for days trying to find correlations. Sometimes it just is what it is. And Hatcher it is will pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,I would gently invite you to step away from over analyzing your baby’s level of fussiness. You will run yourself ragged looking for patterns to emerge and making comparisons with questions like the one you posed. Every day is a new day with a newborn.

Cool thanks. If anyone has a genuine answer I would love to discuss.

NP: This WAS a genuine answer, OP.

I found a rough correlation to the “wonder weeks”, but there’s been plenty of hours/days/weeks where it could just have been because it was Tuesday, because full moon, or some kind of juju.

Babies (and toddlers, and tweens, and teens, and adults) are just fussy sometimes. This too, shall pass. If there is something specific you can help with, like pain, you give analgesic. Hungry/angry/tired/lonely - well you help with that if you can. But sometimes, just like you, your baby is going to be in a bad mood.

You will get through, I promise. PP hit the nail on the head saying you could chase your tail for days trying to find correlations. Sometimes it just is what it is. And Hatcher it is will pass.

NP- No, it wasn't. It was a sanctimonious lecture about why she shouldn't be asking the question.

[Anonymous]

6-9 weeks from due date was a cluster. The turning point for us was when DS started to go to bed at a designated time. Started with 9:30ish and now at 7 months it’s 7pm. Having a couple baby-free hours is heaven.

[Anonymous]

For us it started at 5 weeks with DS1 - he was 10 days over if that means anything to your timetable. DH stayed late at work and when he walked in to find me just sitting on the couch with a screaming baby the only words I could manage were, “too long”. He settled down right before the 4 month sleep regression and then it was “always something” - teething, a cold, etc. Then smooth sailing. Then DS2 was a dream until 7 months and then screamed daily until right around 2YO.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,I would gently invite you to step away from over analyzing your baby’s level of fussiness. You will run yourself ragged looking for patterns to emerge and making comparisons with questions like the one you posed. Every day is a new day with a newborn.

Cool thanks. If anyone has a genuine answer I would love to discuss.

NP: This WAS a genuine answer, OP.

I found a rough correlation to the “wonder weeks”, but there’s been plenty of hours/days/weeks where it could just have been because it was Tuesday, because full moon, or some kind of juju.

Babies (and toddlers, and tweens, and teens, and adults) are just fussy sometimes. This too, shall pass. If there is something specific you can help with, like pain, you give analgesic. Hungry/angry/tired/lonely - well you help with that if you can. But sometimes, just like you, your baby is going to be in a bad mood.

You will get through, I promise. PP hit the nail on the head saying you could chase your tail for days trying to find correlations. Sometimes it just is what it is. And Hatcher it is will pass.

NP- No, it wasn't. It was a sanctimonious lecture about why she shouldn't be asking the question.

Different poster and I didn’t read this as sanctimonious at all. I wish someone had told me to step away from the internet when my baby was a newborn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,I would gently invite you to step away from over analyzing your baby’s level of fussiness. You will run yourself ragged looking for patterns to emerge and making comparisons with questions like the one you posed. Every day is a new day with a newborn.

Cool thanks. If anyone has a genuine answer I would love to discuss.

NP: This WAS a genuine answer, OP.

I found a rough correlation to the “wonder weeks”, but there’s been plenty of hours/days/weeks where it could just have been because it was Tuesday, because full moon, or some kind of juju.

Babies (and toddlers, and tweens, and teens, and adults) are just fussy sometimes. This too, shall pass. If there is something specific you can help with, like pain, you give analgesic. Hungry/angry/tired/lonely - well you help with that if you can. But sometimes, just like you, your baby is going to be in a bad mood.

You will get through, I promise. PP hit the nail on the head saying you could chase your tail for days trying to find correlations. Sometimes it just is what it is. And Hatcher it is will pass.

NP- No, it wasn't. It was a sanctimonious lecture about why she shouldn't be asking the question.

Different poster and I didn’t read this as sanctimonious at all. I wish someone had told me to step away from the internet when my baby was a newborn.

Same here.

I’ll also point out that in the sleep deprived first year, sometimes mediocre days seemed worse just because I felt worse. If you really want to analyze your baby’s fussy trends, you need to make yourself a little chart and keep track of it. Be sure to include feeding and sleep times on the chart so you can see correlations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,I would gently invite you to step away from over analyzing your baby’s level of fussiness. You will run yourself ragged looking for patterns to emerge and making comparisons with questions like the one you posed. Every day is a new day with a newborn.

Cool thanks. If anyone has a genuine answer I would love to discuss.

NP: This WAS a genuine answer, OP.

I found a rough correlation to the “wonder weeks”, but there’s been plenty of hours/days/weeks where it could just have been because it was Tuesday, because full moon, or some kind of juju.

Babies (and toddlers, and tweens, and teens, and adults) are just fussy sometimes. This too, shall pass. If there is something specific you can help with, like pain, you give analgesic. Hungry/angry/tired/lonely - well you help with that if you can. But sometimes, just like you, your baby is going to be in a bad mood.

You will get through, I promise. PP hit the nail on the head saying you could chase your tail for days trying to find correlations. Sometimes it just is what it is. And Hatcher it is will pass.

NP- No, it wasn't. It was a sanctimonious lecture about why she shouldn't be asking the question.

+1 .when you are in the thick of it you are desperate for relief. And PP was completely unhelpful. Our pediatrition told us 6-8 weeks was peak fussiness and gave us formula to help with spit up and probiotic drops. It got better at about 2 months. I have no idea if it actually worked, if it was a placebo (for me) or if my baby just grew out of hating being a baby. Either way, OP, I'm sorry you're going through this. It will get better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,I would gently invite you to step away from over analyzing your baby’s level of fussiness. You will run yourself ragged looking for patterns to emerge and making comparisons with questions like the one you posed. Every day is a new day with a newborn.

Cool thanks. If anyone has a genuine answer I would love to discuss.

NP: This WAS a genuine answer, OP.

I found a rough correlation to the “wonder weeks”, but there’s been plenty of hours/days/weeks where it could just have been because it was Tuesday, because full moon, or some kind of juju.

Babies (and toddlers, and tweens, and teens, and adults) are just fussy sometimes. This too, shall pass. If there is something specific you can help with, like pain, you give analgesic. Hungry/angry/tired/lonely - well you help with that if you can. But sometimes, just like you, your baby is going to be in a bad mood.

You will get through, I promise. PP hit the nail on the head saying you could chase your tail for days trying to find correlations. Sometimes it just is what it is. And Hatcher it is will pass.

NP- No, it wasn't. It was a sanctimonious lecture about why she shouldn't be asking the question.

Different poster and I didn’t read this as sanctimonious at all. I wish someone had told me to step away from the internet when my baby was a newborn.

+1.

OP, 5 to 6 weeks after birth (which occurred at 39 wks 3 days) was a really difficult period for us and DD. But that doesn't really tell you much about your baby. FWIW I wish somebody had told me to sit on the couch and rest and not worry about anything except feeding and changing and holding my baby, and watching bad TV if I felt like it.

[Anonymous]

Was not true for mine. She ramped up around 8 weeks and stayed “fussy” (more like “screamy” from colic) until 16 weeks, when she got a bit better. She then got a lot better at 5.5 months. But no, her fussiness at 6 weeks wasn’t so bad.