Screaming and shouting.

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When does it end? What can I do to help her?

My 6 month old has found her voice and it is loud and constant. She screams all. The. Time.

It’s like she’s so angry and frustrated and nothing I do makes it better.
I pick her up - she screeches in my ear to the point it is ringing by the time my husband comes home, but if I put her down she screams there too.

I feed her - silence for all of 30seconds until she’s pissed off with it.
I play with her - she screams.
I try and get her to nap when she’s giving sleep cues, she cries and screams.

She doesn’t have reflux, colic or anything of the sort. She’s just so so angry all the time.

It’s making me feel like such a shit mum because I can’t make it stop and it’s simultaneously making me want to smack myself over the head with a frying pan so I don’t have to listen to it anymore.

I can’t keep spending every day this way, what can I try to help her?

It's probably frustration - she's alert enough to know there's stuff going on but she can't get to it. Try surrounding her with interesting stuff to do, otherwise it might just be a matter of time.

Thanks @Ohalrightthen - I’m sure she’s more alert and aware of her surroundings but she’s even doing it at the baby clubs we go to. I take her to a different group every day and she still does it there , I’m at my wits end with this combined with lack of sleep!

We had the same issue. DD was much, much better when she could crawl.

This might get me shot, but i got earplugs. I didn't ignore her, i was still right there playing and cuddling and everything, but the noise was duller.

ALSO if you can afford it, go to a cranial osteopath. Especially if she was a forceps baby. Didn't work for us but worked for others i know.

Oh god I’m off to amazon to prime some ear plugs 😂

She was indeed a forceps birth - what does a cranial osteopath do?! Reassuring to hear the crawling helped - she can roll and kick about so hopefully not too far off (or will that just be another stress 😂)

It's like little adjustments to your body - really gentle physio, kinda. Find one who specialises in babies, see if they'll do you a check. Sometimes babies born with forceps end up with tightness or neck pain or discomfort, and it makes them grumpy (as you'd expect)!