So, anyone else with a fussy baby out there? My little one, Bonnie, is 10 weeks old and has a mammoth temper on her. I'm the only one at mothers' group who is always standing, swaying and shooshing her while the other mums have their placid babies in their prams or quietly on their knees.

It's not colic or anything, and even though she's worse in the evenings (like most babies) she's also cranky throughout the day - mainly due to overtiredness. It makes it hard getting out and about, because I have a screaming baby in my pram - which is just an invitation for the general public to offer helpful advice such as "Oh - she's hungry" (no she isn't, I've just fed her), "she's too hot" (perhaps, but if it was cooler I reckon she'd still be crying), "she has wind" etc. I cracked it yesterday at a complete stranger who came over to me in the supermarket to tell me that my baby was hungry, and snapped "she's a baby, they cry, get used to it".

I also got accosted in the parents' room at a shopping centre while Bonnie was going completely crazy (she'd done a big pooh, and she's especially fussy when that happens). A mother of two toddlers (you'd think she'd know better) told me that she had to come out of the cubicle to see what I was doing to my baby because she'd never heard a baby scream so much. Way to make me feel like a crap mother!

I'm told that things get a bit easier at 3 months re fussy babies, and at this stage I'm counting down the days. Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely in love with my little girl and despite her temper, she is completely charming the rest of the time - I reckon she's just passionate and fiesty, which isn't a bad thing at all.

I just get sick of the value judgements from other people, especially other parents. Everytime I hear something like, "well, I did so and so with little insert-name-here and he's a little angel" it kind of implies that Bonnie isn't a little angel because of something that I'm doing.

Please tell me that I'm not the only one with a fussy baby. Vent your stories here...