Baby won't stop screeching all day
The constant screeching from morning until night leaves parents exhausted, overstimulated, and battling headaches. This relentless noise makes it impossible to sleep or catch a break, driving some to wear headphones just to get through the day.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1wearing headphones to block out the noise
- 2yelling at the same volume to make it a game
- 3teaching the baby sign language to communicate
- 4ignoring the noise until the phase passes
- 5Teaching and practicing "quiet screeching" to give them a volume alternative.
- 6Wearing ear plugs to manage sensory overload.
- 7Giving the baby a pacifier to force a physical break from the noise.
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My 5 month old from the moment she opens her eyes to falling asleep.. screeches. It’s like we have a mini pterodactyl in our house.”source ↗
“At first it was adorable and now we’re all overstimulated 24/7 and can’t catch a break!”source ↗
“Our youngest was a screecher as a baby, and now he's 11, and will randomly screech for fun (not fun for us)”source ↗
“My daughter did this, she chose the screech over actual communicating right up til she was about 3. Was a real fun time.”source ↗
“We used to get so frustrated because the neighbors would complain”source ↗
“Just this week I’ve been so exhausted all day and wanted to sleep, all that screaming got to me lol”source ↗
“He does this all day and night and it’s giving me a headache, sometimes I just wear headphones.”source ↗
“That was one of the hardest phases ever.”source ↗
“In the day time I’m all for fun but at night I’m like okay can we settle down a little?”source ↗
“I called it the hawk screech. Unfortunately it does come back. We had a happy screech around 5-6 months and now at 10 months he’s doing it again.”source ↗
“Mine did this for several months!! Drove me up the wall.”source ↗