Noises

Now that our little one has hit the 5-month mark, she's started making high-pitched squeals. There's little rhyme or reason to them. She makes them when she's sad, happy, hungry, or needs a change. We've tried to discern a pattern but have so far been unable to find one.

It seems the only thing she's discovered through her squealing is that if she makes these noises at maximum volume, Daddy makes funny faces and says things like, "oh, God, make it stop!"

Otherwise, we've been very lucky with her. She's healthy, sleeping through the night on a semi-regular basis, and cries only when she needs something. A cousin of my wife's, in contrast, has an infant boy who wails constantly. After first, when my mother-in-law told me about him, I thought she meant it felt like he cried constantly. No, she said, empirically, the kid cries on a near-constant basis. His pediatrician has so far found nothing medically wrong but the crying persists. His poor parents are at their wits' end.

I don't blame them.

Our daughter has started to coo a lot but, thankfully, her loud noises have been so far minimal. Other than the squealing. But, given what some other parents have to deal with, I think I can live with it.