For us, no, its not just all yelling and crying. Claire does cry at times, but not all that much. She is a happy baby. But some babies just cry more than others for various reasons, eg painful reflux. All you can do is try to help as much as possible. Some babies just cry more than others. She is only 11 months though so we havent entered toddlerhood or terrible two tanty territory.

Babies are needy little creatures and love attention. They'll cry if they arent getting the attention they want. Sometimes you just cant give them 100% of the attention 100% of the time. I mean, Claire at times will follow me around like a lost little puppy and I cant even sit on the loo without her coming in and trying to climb on me. If she cant sit on my lap, she'll cry, but I'm not about to have her sitting on my lap while I'm on the loo, or hold her while I'm cooking dinner on the stove.

I admit that I do sometimes wonder what is going on in the heads of people who yell at the kids. You know the ones I mean: in the shopping centre, or in the car driving next to your car, or when youre walking past someones house and you can hear an adult yelling and a child crying... Its hard to put yourself in their shoes if you dont really know them. People have different ways of dealing with issues. I admit to having had a bit of a yell before. When I had gone most of the night with no sleep, Claire wouldnt sleep, she just wanted to pull my hair and climb on me, I wanted to have a shower and eat breakfast. She wouldnt settle. I turned around and went "what!!! what do you want Claire!!!" needless to say, it achieved nothing but letting me let of a bit of steam. When I'm getting close to the end of my patience, I think about that moment because I felt so bad after screaming.