Mood swings

[Hollyadmin]

I spend a lot of time with a friend who has a one year old baby, who I would definitely consider high needs. It's so strange being around him, because he reminds me so much of Sammy at that age. The thing I had kind of forgotten (or perhaps suppressed  ) are the extreme mood swings. SO cute and happy one SECOND, and crying and fussing or even screaming the next. Then 3 seconds later, back to happy again. How do you deal with the constant mood swings?? Or does your baby not have them?

[sunshinebaby]

My "baby" is 2 and a half and I swear has more mood swings than a teenager.  It is so frustrating because I don't know what to expect from her.  I just trying to make our environment/schedule predictable and make sure she knows what to expect.

[Craziimami13]

I spend a lot of time with a friend who has a one year old baby, who I would definitely consider high needs. It's so strange being around him, because he reminds me so much of Sammy at that age. The thing I had kind of forgotten (or perhaps suppressed  ) are the extreme mood swings. SO cute and happy one SECOND, and crying and fussing or even screaming the next. Then 3 seconds later, back to happy again. How do you deal with the constant mood swings?? Or does your baby not have them?

BobbyJo dose that , she playing and all happy and then she screming and throwing her self back . I try to give her something diff that she likes and then SOMETIMES she gets happy agine

[fbsurvivor]

My daughter definitely had mood swings.  I always used to say that it was like the dog whisperer, you had to snap her out of those crying fits.  Once she got to the age where you could entertain her or distract her that screaming could turn into giggling in a milisecond. I was always amazed that I would be holding her and she would be content.  My eyes would wander across the room, away from her, and she would bust out wailing.  I guess with my daughter there was always something that instigated the screaming and she would go from 0 to 100.  The same thing could happen with calming.  There was a period when we had to hold her all of the time.  She would be screaming at the top of her lungs and the second we picked her up she would stop.  This also happened if she got wind that we were about to do something.  If she thought we were going to put her in the carseat she would start screaming.  But the instant she figured out that something else was happening, she stopped.  I think the way I dealt with it was humor.  It was just crazy to me that one second it's the end of the world and the next minute everything is great.  Also, my husband and I are well aware that she gets a lot of it from her parents and so we knew we were getting a taste of our own medicine.  It was somewhat humbling and eye opening.  At 18 months, my daughter still definitely has those mood swings sometimes.  But now there are so many more resources to change the situation.  We use distraction a lot.  I'm often telling her to show something to dad to redirect her.

[MDT]

My 4 month old seems to have mood swings and I cringe to think of how he's going to be when he's older.  One minute he's all big smiles and laughing so hard, the next he's screaming his little lungs out.  It's like clockwork and I can't figure out what the problem is other than I guess that's just how he is.

[DolphineGirl]

Oh my son yesterday! He is two months old, and high need. Weather was nice so I decided I would take him for a walk in the afternoon. I fed him around 3 p.m. and then I thought we would leave. After and during feeding him he again had gas problems, so he screamed, but really badly. I thought no way to go out with a baby like him! Anyway, feeding was done, he was sort of calmed down (not 100% though), I got him dressed, went downstairs with a fussy baby, and then put him in the stroller. Ups... something else to look at, and the calmed down completely. We went out, for about 5 minutes he kept his eyes open, and looked, then he drifted off to sleep... he woke up when we came home, but did not cry! Although I was prepared for the worst!

[Hollyadmin]

This is definitely something we still see in Sammy at 3.5 years old!  The good thing is that MOST of the time he's in the happy phase....but he can switch to totally freaking out mode in the blink of an eye. He'll be super happy and charming and easygoing, and then all of a sudden he gets in his mind that he's going to do something/not do something, and it's full out screaming. And then for whatever reason, he'll snap out of it and be back to 'normal'.