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Intense Babies: A Cross Between Passionate … and
Explosive
Throughout your baby’s normal waking cycles, he’s bound to
experience tiny flashes of frustration, annoyance, and discomfort. Calm
babies handle these with hardly a fuss, but intense babies handle these
intensely. It’s as if the “sparks” of everyday distress fall onto the
“dynamite” of their volatile temperament, and “Kapow!” they explode.
When babies lose control like that, they may get so carried away that
they can’t stop screaming even when they’re given exactly what they
want.
This intense crying was what Jackie experienced when she tried to
feed her hungry—and passionate—baby. Two-month-old Jeffrey often
began his feedings like this:
“He would let out a shriek that sounded like, ‘Feed me
or I’m gonna die!’ I would leap off the sofa, take out my
breast, and insert it into his cavernous mouth. However,
rather than gratefully taking it, he would often shake his
head from side to side and wail around my dripping boob
as if he were blind and didn’t even know it was there. At
times I worried that he thought my breast was a hand
trying to silence him rather than my loving attempt to
come to his rescue.
“Fortunately, I had already figured out that Jeffrey
couldn’t stop himself from reacting that way. So, despite
his protests, I kept offering him my breast until he realized

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what I was trying to do. Eventually, he would latch on
and start suckling. And then, lo and behold, he’d eat as if
I hadn’t fed him for months.”
Jackie was smart. She realized Jeffrey wasn’t intentionally ignoring
her gift of food; he was just a little bitty baby trying to deal with his
great big personality. Like a rookie cowboy on a rodeo bull, he was
trying so hard to hold on that he didn’t notice she was right there next to
him, ready to help.