Recently, Keda saw a heart-wrenching news.
A couple found through monitoring that the nanny who had just come to the house for a few days had a very rough action when coaxing the child, shaking violently and slapping the child.
Across the screen, I felt that the child's head was about to be shaken into a paste.
What's even more frightening is that some people in the comments say: Slapping children really shouldn't be, but aren't children all shaken? Is shaking also abusive?
Such remarks are not uncommon. Every year there are incidents of shaking and abusing babies, and the second department has greatly opened the comment area, and they are all angry and urgently need artificial respiration!
A group of people are saying that every generation is growing up shaking, and there is no need to panic.
So many likes, The baby immediately struggled from the swaddling to thank her
Don't you really need to panic?
The two children in the picture, can you tell that they are twins?
This photograph was nominated for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, and the two children are twins Michelle and Gabby: one healthy and agile, one dead.
This tragic tragedy of life with a similar start and a different ending was cast in only five or six seconds.
One afternoon, Dad was alone at home with the baby, and the crying of the twin flowers made him gradually lose patience, and he picked up little Gabi and shook it vigorously, trying to make her stop crying.
After five or six seconds, Little Gabi stopped crying and looked sluggish. Gabi Jr. was eventually judged vegetative.
Image source: Scientific Family Parenting Original
She became a victim of infant shaking syndrome, and all the possibilities and beauty of life were shattered in her father's shaking.
Later, Grandma took them to the park and used them as an example to popularize "baby shaking syndrome" to passers-by.
In the United States, the disability rate of infant shaking syndrome is very high, with about 1300 cases of infant shaking syndrome each year, and more than 80% of survivors have a lifelong disability.
Such cases in our country are not uncommon.
Because of excessive shaking, the symptoms were so serious that the county hospital did not dare to accept it, and finally saved his life in the municipal hospital, and it is not known whether there will be sequelae.
There were three months of children who were shaken to the point of cerebral hemorrhage and eventually died.
Shake, shake, shake, how can the consequences be so serious?
Infant shaking syndrome, also known as "abusive head trauma.")
Generally caused by violent shaking, pulling, hitting, throwing caused by infant brain injuries, mostly between 0-4 years old, especially 0-8 months of young infants.
If your child happens to be at these ages, be sure to pay more attention.
Why are adults 857 all night okay, but infants and young children shake a few times but so deadly?
The brains of infants and young children are different from those of adults.
Their brains are not yet fully developed, and inside are brain tissues of gelatinous substances like jelly.
The skull is not well grown, the skull is very thin, the support is weak, the curvature of the base of the skull is small and relatively flat, and there is a gap between the brain shell and the brain tissue.
When we shake the baby's head vigorously, their brain tissue may be impacted, and then the brain nerve fibers are damaged, the cerebral blood vessels rupture and bleeding, the brain tissue is edematous, and the cranial pressure is increased and the hernia occurs.
In addition, the cervical spine of infants and young children is not fully developed, the muscles and fascia on the neck are also weak, the baby's head is larger and heavier than that of adults, and the cervical spine is already overwhelmed.
Violent shaking of the head may lead to contusions such as skeletal periosteum in the neck area, affecting the blood supply to brain tissue, and serious damage to the spinal cord leading to paralysis.
What behaviors put a child at risk for baby shaking syndrome?
In addition to the malicious shaking and abuse of the nanny, it is more often the inadvertent behavior of our parents. The following 5 kinds of behaviors, we must put an end to!
1. Violent coaxing
When the child is crying, soothe the child with a violent shaking.
At this time, parents should first calm their irritable mood, look for the reason for the child's crying, try to stroke the eyebrows, tap and shake, and hum to give the baby a response and sense of security.
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2. Unreliable fancy belt dolls
Throw the child in the air
Up and down, left and right
For example, holding it high, pretending to be a small plane or putting the child in the hand as a gun to protrude forward.
Hold or toss your child in a quick circle
Have your child sit on your knees and lie back
Quickly reflect on whether you have done these actions when you bring your baby, and some do not take chances, and quickly change them!
Some fans have asked me if sitting in rocking chairs, rocking cars, pushing strollers on potholed ground, will they shake their heads? Today, I will also give you an answer.
Rocking chairs
Speed bumps
Shake the car
Everyone does not have to panic too much, not all shaking will lead to "baby shaking syndrome", the key is to grasp the degree.
Slight and moderate shaking also helps the child's vestibular development, enhances the baby's physical balance and coordination ability, etc.
If there has been a violent shaking behavior in the past, you can observe the child's mental state, diet and sleep, limb movement, if there is no tiredness, sluggishness and other symptoms of infant shaking syndrome, there is generally no problem.
But please also pay attention to it and don't take chances. Don't wait for the pain to really fall on the child, and then regret that you didn't listen to the advice.