7 month old has temper tantrums

[jadey24]

My 7 mt dd has been like this for a few weeks nw tho and is getting worst. All i do is either tell her no firmly or just ignore her. She does settle staight away when i put the dummy in her mouth.
She goes mad at most things. Being dressed, taking summit out her hands and with her toys.
She just screams and starts thrashing her arms and legs about widly and stiffins her body and she is quite strong too.

She started smiling at 5 weeks too but dont really do it that much at all. She is hard to get to smile and laugh. And when she does smile she is mostly does at the tv rather then people.

She's too young to understand you telling her no. If the dummy settles her when she has a "tantrum" then just carry on doing that.

I had one of these . She's now 17m and still v. sensitive/spirited but better the older she gets and we just have to find what works best in each situation we come across and if all else fails ignore ignore ignore.

Distract her as much as you can is my best advice. When dressing/nappy changes, playing peekaboo or singing generally worked for me. Its amazing how many different verses of 'the wheels on the bus' you can invent when you need to! When taking things out of her hand, I assume its because its inappropriate for her to have(?) If so, I would always try and swap it for something else enticing which usually did the trick..

agree with porridgebrain! swapping items often (but not always) distracts my ds when he has hold of something he shouldn't have. he also had temper tantrums from the moment he could crawl but was very difficult and cried a lot before that. he rarely smiled and fussed, cried, screamed for everything. we could not contain his temper and he was a bit of a nightmare looking back i wonder how we coped.

he's 18 months now and although he's still spirited and v. over sensitive to things, he is also a beautiful, clever, happy little boy 95% of the time. I think a lotof it is just him growing out of his frustrations. He hated being faffed about with, dressed, nappy changes, put into buggy etc etc. He still is not keen on any of those things but he can now be distracted by handing him something interesting to play with or giving him a book to look at.

I think unless some one has been through it then it's difficult to understand but some babies are just very frustrated and know what they want. my ds seemed constantly frustrated and still now his lack of communication frustrates him. it does get better though. xxx