Ok, I know this is going to sounds nuts, and I've read online that this is impossible, and people may assume I'm a terrible, neglectful mother or something....but I swear my 14 week old daughter has full on strops! She's always been quite a 'shouty' crier (ie, all our friends babies do this beautiful gentle 'whimper' you can hardly hear, but DD literally screams her head off, she goes from 0-60 before you realise anything is even wrong and you're like 'whooooa...ok ok!'. She started sort of 'barking' at me from around 4 weeks - I know that sounds mad but it was like a yap, like 'mahhh! baaaah!' with no tears or even consistency, just sort of yapping to check I was giving her attention, if I dared leave the room to go to the loo she'd yap and sometimes just scream (the amount if times I've struggled to go to the loo with baby on lap/over shoulder....once I had to leg it with pants round my ankles to grab her as couldn't stand the screaming...LOL!
The weird thing is she's such a delight, she's smiley, very chatty, she's properly laughing now too, we have great fun, she sleeps fairly well, naps quite well, but every so often just goes utterly berserk, like last night for no apparent reason she screamed her head off from 5.30pm to 9.30 pm (she was fed, clean nappy, bathed, no temperature, gave calpol anyway eventually though, pulled all her clothes off and actually checked for injuries at one point, winded her for about 25 solid minutes, held/lay her in every possible position, lights on, lights off, walked her, bounced her, rocked her, sang, shhhhd....), bar a 25 min nap in between where I gave up trying to put her down and plonked her in her bouncy chair until she dozed off, grobag and all! I do stay calm and just try to get her through it as assume she's venting for a reason, often its overtiredness but I can usually rock her to sleep from that, she's not had a screaming fit like that for ages!
I know 'they' say they don't have the capacity to feel anger, but I think she is super frustrated at this point of development (able to grab things but it's really draining her energy and concentration to do it, can't quite roll over, wants to sit/stand but can't) plus she's probably teething....is it possible that she's just say 'arghhhh I'm so bladdy cross!' or am I one of those hyper sensitive weak mums who is going to be at the mercy of her toddler in a few years time...? argh!
It sounds awful but....it's sometimes quite funny, I mean she really shouts, like she's really pissed off, and she's so tiny and cute it's just a bit funny, lol! Maybe she's just a girl who knows her own mind and won't stop til she get what she wants, and I kind of like that about her in a weird way! Funny little thing :-)