I need to hear from as many people as possible that this terrible, terrible screeching is just a phase and will pass. Soon. And never return.

My! God! Glass hasn't yet shattered, but it did tremble. I just had to hand her off to Hubby because her normal sing-herself-to-sleep noises were too much for my ringing eardrums to bear after an entire day of wailing like a banshee. I can't find a reason for it. Not hunger, attention, "pick me up!", boredom, or any discernible reason. Just the tiny girl using her lungs to their fullest extent. Repeatedly.

And to think Ebay's lungs' health were ever in question.

It will pass and be replaced by "mommy? mommy? mommy? mommy? mommy?..."

There - feel better?

I hope your husband is making digital recordings. That screeching, sampled, could do wonders in an avant-garde opera about parenting. ;)

HBD - she may be having a positive neural response to the stimulation her chest muscles are getting from doing that kind of activity.

Plus, it gets attention. So screeching is fun. ; )

For your sake, I hope it passes soon!

The Dragon developed a heckofa screech a month or so ago but we have tempered it. But the first time we heard it it almost knocked us over. I'm going with the it will pass soon crowd. And you should record it for the, "See what we had to put up with file?" for when she is older...

the little man is currently in the throes of this as well. we call it "exploring his upper register". when he does it i swear i feel the bones in my skull vibrating against each other. but he's so proud of himself, i can hardly be mad.

LMFAO - i posted this exact question several months ago.

Yes, it passes. And yes, it right sucks arse.

How old is she? Beenie was doing it at about 4 or 5 months i think. Maybe 6. Just cos she was learning what her voice actually does, i suppose.

BIG DRAG. She doesn't do it any more though.

Our babies are about the same age and the glass-shattering squeal doesn't really go away, it just changes. Now, peanut pants is perfecting her "I'm pissed" and she growls and shrieks in this deep, chest-rattling "GGRRRRRAHHHHHHHH!!!" which further convinces me that her nickname of Demon Baby is apt.

BoL, she's developmentally almost 8 months.

Ellie, Ebay was growling like a tiger cub a few weeks ago, but it was a happy, full-body-involved thing. She stopped doing it. ;^(

We call our son Demon at times, too. The grandparents get upset to hear it...hehehe!

It is better than the biting your parents phase.

I still bite my parents. It makes me feel young.

Everything I needed to know about parenting I learned from the Brady Bunch.

It's just a phase. A painful, annoying, disconcerting phase.

Have you tried bringing your voice up to hers and then bringing it down with some gentle la la las?