8 month old baby shrieking!

My almost 8 month darling (!) has started shrieking as loud and as long as she possibly can!

She is absolutely fine - not in pain / hungry / in need of anything but seems to love making this sound! It doesn’t seem that she is angry or upset either, in fact she does it with a smile on her face!

This weekend she has even gone red in the face with her fist shaking doing it!

Any ideas on what / why she is doing this, and more importantly what to do to stop it?

I’ve ignored her, talked calmly back to her as though we are in conversation (she shrieks over me!) and also shrieked back!

Please help! My ears can’t take this much longer ;)

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My 7m is learning to do this and awaits a reaction, as its another way of expressing his emotions

Just discovering her voice! My boy used to do this all the time, mostly in the car 🤷🏻‍♀️

One of my 8 month old twins does this constantly as well !! I feel your pain. 🤦🏼‍♀️

My 6 month old does this now and she did the same thing yesterday and went bright red! I panicked but she was fine, I think they are just finding their voice and realise they can hold their breath or something 🙈😂

My LG also done this it was horrendous, id did feel like it went on forever but it did eventually pass. I think she had just found her voice, would either ignore it or talk quietly to her. My partner (Night Work) wasn’t too impressed 🙈

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Not sure what’s wrong- 5months

Has anyone experienced any of the below problems with their baby?
He’s always a happy baby so this is completely not him. He’s a terrible sleeper but now it’s worse, if it could.

He’s was EBF but now on formula for the last 2 weeks. 2 days in a row now he’s vomitted a lot of milk out everywhere in the evening and just before bed.
For example I was walking around the room with him around 18:45 and it just came out of no where everywhere.

He’s very miserable and takes ages to get to sleep. Crying lots.
He’s been dribbling a lot, flushed one cheek but I can’t see any teeth coming.

All night he just won’t settle in his cot. Sometimes just starts crying hysterically and I can’t settle him at all.

A very tired mama.

Any advise on what it could be?

Changing pram

When is everyone planning on moving baby from carry cot to the upright pram? Mine is nearly 4 months. Theres lots of different advice online.

Naps!

My lo is 7.5 months and has recently struggled to be put in her cot for naps/sleep. She will sleep on me but as soon as I lie her down wide awake! Help!

Sleeping through

If your baby is sleeping through the night are you ever nervous about saying that to other parents with babies of the same age? My toddler no longer sleeps through without coming into our bed but did until about 11 months old and now my 11 week old has been sleeping solid for 3 or 4 weeks now. I always feel like I can’t say it to other mums because it comes across like I’m showing off…I know what the sleep deprivation feels like and how you can just resent anyone for anything🤣 but I kind of feel like I can’t relate sometimes.

Sleepsacks

Hi everyone!! What sleepsacks would you all recommend? Also, WHY can't I find nice colours and patterns anywhere?! Does anyone else find this?

Is there any correlation between sleeping through the night and types of feeding?

Did your baby age 0-6months sleep through the night, 6 hours or more, and how were they fed? It always see like formula fed babies sleep through the night sooner than breastfed babies.