There's a time in a parent's life when the unthinkable happens: Their formerly quiet baby becomes a noisy baby. As in a really loud, screeching baby.

Jasmine*, mother of two from Germantown, Md., says her son started screeching at about a year old and didn't fully stop until he was about 2 1/2 years old.

"Mostly, he would screech when he was bored," Jasmine says. "One of his favorite times to screech was in restaurants, right after we had ordered the food. It was so hard because we couldn't eat out very often. To get around this, we would walk him around right after the food was ordered and not bring him back to the table until the food had arrived."

A shrieking baby and a shrieking toddler are two different creatures, but the noise mostly stems from the same thing – their inability to tell you what they really feel or want.

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