For the first few months of Norah?s life, evenings were predictable?and loud.
?It was like clockwork,? Norah?s mom, Jen Monnin , 36, says of her crying. ?From about 5 p.m., it just would not stop for even a second until roughly 8 or 9 p.m. Sometimes it would go until 10.?
The routine began about two weeks after Norah?s birth. It was steady, inconsolable crying that seemed to fill their Ottawa home and was immune to the typical new-parent bag of tricks. ?We put her in the carrier, bounced her around. We?d of course do the feed-change-burp cycle like a hundred times, do bicycle kicks for gas?pretty much anything we could think of,? says Monnin. ?We spoke to our paediatrician a lot. Nothing would help.? 
The bouts were hard on Monnin, and also on her husband, who would typically arrive  home from work just as the crying began. ?The only time he spent with her was when she was crying. So he really didn?t get any quality time with her until she was about five months.? 
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