Are these meltdowns normal?
My little boy has started having HUGE meltdowns every couple of days - literally SCREAMING and crying hysterically and completely inconsolable. No obvious trigger, has happened in different situations - had one on Monday morning about 2 mins after waking up as I tried to change his 💩 nappy, then again tonight when I went to take him out of the bath absolutely screamed and it went on for 30 mins had to fight him to put his pjs on. I stay calm, and try the ‘smell the flowers blow the candle’ but that seems to make the screaming worse!! It is SO loud, he is beyond calming, tears streaming, if I try and hold him he tries to push away but if I walk away he follows and tries to grab me all while still screaming. It seems very very extreme to me, and I don’t have any other toddlers to compare him to! I know all toddlers have tantrums but these just seem next level!!! I would say it happens every other day and lasts around half an hour. Can anyone else relate?
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Mine has had meltdowns like this, usually when he's over tired. They're different to tantrums. If I try to hug him etc it makes it worse so I'll just sit next to him and as long as he's not going to hurt himself, I'll let him cry it out. I think it's a sensory overload thing so they just get overwhelmed and don't know how to process it.
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Yes my little boy is like this sometimes especially since we had breast injury and he can't feed as often as he would like in the middle of the night when he wakes up he usually has boob but he can't till it's healed he wakes up and screams when I won't give in and give it to him then I have to get up and hold him as he falls back asleep then he's over my shoulder uncomfortably for two hours my neck is agonising. Roll. On the healing so I can offer him boob to soothe him again ✨