6 month old grunting and screeching

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My 6 month old DD is usually very happy, smily and laughs all the time until a few days ago when she randomly started grunting.

Initially I thought it was just her learning her voice more, then I thought it was frustration as she’s trying to crawl but not succeeded yet. However, she has started doing it more and more, for example if she wants her dummy, doesn’t want anymore food, wants to stand up when she’s sitting down. Then today she’s started screeching at these things as well.

Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with this? I really don’t want her to become a little madam.

It's just a phase! She is trying to get your attention to alert you to the fact she needs something, instead of crying.
If you think of it as trying to communicate with you, rather than being a madam it's easier to cope with - my 8 month old has started doing a high pitched scream this week, I am hoping she quickly changes her voice too as it's ear piercing!

She's 6 months old! She's not being a little madam, she's trying out different sounds and different things, trying to communicate with you as best she can. Just wait till she reaches the terrible twos, this is nothing!

DS is 6 months and is doing much the same thing. Lots of screeching. Just trying to communicate I guess!

My 8 month old niece’s sound of choice at the moment is a kind of trill, something like if you rolls your ‘r’s (I can’t do it back, she’s not terribly impressed!). She also had a screeching phase and various other vocalisations - they’re just learning how to communicate and all the different sounds they can make.

Thanks, I’m not saying she’s a madam now I just wasn’t sure if I should be giving in to it and risk her becoming a madam.

Her learning to communicate in different ways does make sense, on reflection she doesn’t really cry anymore so it probably is that she’s found a different way to communicate.

By responding, you're not giving into her but showing that you're looking out for her & her needs and responding to it. And develop her communication skills by replying. Say she is doing something which suggests to you she wants her dummy, the you could reply along the lines of "are you telling me you want your dummy? This (holding dummy up) your dummy. You can't have it just now as dummies are only for nap time OR I'm about to change your nappy OR here's your dummy. When you're a bit bigger, you'll say "please, mummy, may I have my dummy"'and then I'll give it to you and you'll say thank you'd of course, you can use entirely different words/sentencenstuctures but you should show that you realisenwhat she is trying to do. There will be plenty of occasions when you often wonMtnjave a towel.

"Towel"? I have no idea where that came from, I meant "clue".