https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:28:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673713 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:45:31 +0000 Raindrop 1673713@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: DH had strip throat last week and so we have been checking his lymph nodes pretty regularly! But thanks for the tip! I didn't check his ears. I'll do that tonight. :)</p> <p>Yeah I think it's the molars because I remember him putting his hands in mouth a lot (he normally never does this) and only wanting to drink ice cold drinks he would not drink his room temperature water - we normally give him some ice in his drink but he is okay when the ice melts but last night he wanted more ice.</p> <p>@winniebee: @tinyperson: @Elderberrygin: @cascademom: Thanks for the comments girls! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673702 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:41:19 +0000 swedishfish 1673702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Raindrop: my LO screamed and cried for hours on Saturday night and over 40 minutes last night. She's getting a molar AND has an ear infection. Check for swollen lymph nodes on the back of your LO's head/neck. That's how I knew something else was going on because R wasn't grabbing at her ear or running a true fever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673698 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:38:43 +0000 cascademom 1673698@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Teeth or sickness. Though LO had one of the worst tantrums ever at 18 months old when he couldn't keep shoveling with LO during the winter. It went on for awhile. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673683 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:31:36 +0000 Elderberrygin 1673683@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Poor you - sounds like a really awful experience! Molars are just the worst. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673674 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:27:56 +0000 tinyperson 1673674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>molars do that for us...happened yesterday after her nap. She woke up and was inconsolable. We gave her some tylenol and we went out to the park to find some birds to look at. She finally calmed down! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673523 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:21:22 +0000 winniebee 1673523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was going to suggest molars. Seems to be the only explanation unless he is sick. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673433 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:34:46 +0000 Raindrop 1673433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lizzywiz: Thanks again. Now I feel like a total newb because this is totally what happened when his other teeth came in but the last time this happened was *so* long ago. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673421 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:30:43 +0000 lizzywiz 1673421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Raindrop: definitely could be. My LO really whines when she is trying to sleep but teeth are giving her troubles. Pain+no sleep=oh, geez! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673414 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:28:00 +0000 Raindrop 1673414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lizzywiz: Oh you know what? His second molars are coming in. He was fussy all weekend and we give him some baby Advil because we can see them erupting. Maybe they started hurting a lot more?</p> <p>EDIT : Also thank you for the info! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673405 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:24:18 +0000 lizzywiz 1673405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This will not be comforting at all, but whenever my LO (24 months) acts like that it has been due to pain. Once there was a biting ant in her shirt (that was an awful two hours) and the other time was a sore in her diaper area that must have killed her anytime she peed.<br /> I am only sharing this not comforting info just in case it ends up being useful. I guess I don't know what to wish for: an award winning tantrum thrower or undiagnosed owie? ugh. Hope he feels better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-normal-tantrum#post-1673347 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:56:34 +0000 Raindrop 1673347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Last night was weird.</p> <p>Here is some background. Lo is 2 years old. His normal tantrums is getting upset and melting on to the floor for about 5 minutes and that's it, he gets up and plays again. We usually ignore him when he does this. This use to happen about 3 times a week.</p> <p>Last night... he had a serious 5 hour the world is ending tantrum right before bed time. It was off and on while we were trying to calm him down.</p> <p>Like hyperventilating, tears in eyes, snot running down his nose, constantly pulling us from this room to that room, hugging, wanting to be carried, not wanting to be carried, wanting mommy, wanting daddy, not wanting mommy, not wanting daddy, not wanting us to be near him, wanting both of us near him. I was googling like crazy to see what we could do. We tried comforting, we tried distracting... even when we managed to calm him down for a little bit, maybe 30 minutes to an hour later he would be back to total melt down mode. Eventually we let him have a good cry session for 20 minutes and he fell asleep on the floor of his bedroom while trying to escape the room. We think he finally wore himself out.</p> <p>The process started at 8pm and it ended up with him finally asleep on the floor of this bedroom (which we moved him to his bed) at 1am. </p> <p>I want to say he was overly tired because he skipped his nap that day but that has happened before and it wasn't WWII at bedtime. So we are kind of at a lost on what happened.</p> <p>I hope this is the one and only time this happens but I was wondering if anyone of you have experienced this and if some of you could please please share some tips! </p>