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A baby should never be shaken!I don't know the answer to this question, but there is a potential implicit premise / inference here that is totally wrong -- that it's good to shake babies. Ayiyi - please don't do that.See:Abusive Head Trauma (Shaken Baby Syndrome)Shaken baby syndrome

Because they are ignorant of Shaken baby syndrome.Because they were shaken as children.Because no one has told them how harmful that is to the child, to them, and to their future grandchildren.

Have you heard of the Shaken-baby Syndrome (SBS)[1]?Also known as Abusive Head Trauma, it is basically an injury to a child’s head caused by someone else.The cause may either be blunt trauma or vigorous traumatic shaking, where the child/baby’s head is flung backwards and forwards at high speeds[2] . Often, this is a result of the caregiver becoming frustrated due to prolonged crying from the baby. Or in other words, abuse.The syndrome typically comes in a classic triad[3] (although a recent study in 2016 displayed limited evidence for use of the triad in diagnosis)[4] :damage to the brain, evidenced by severe brain swelling and/or diffuse traumatic axonal injurybleeding under the membranes which cover the brain, usually subdural and/or subarachnoid bleedingbleeding in the layers of the retina, often accompanied by other ocular damage, when seen in young children or infants, is virtually diagnostic of severe, whiplash shaking of the head.Diagnosis and treatment may include CT scans and surgical procedures.Prognosis can be bad. One third of these patients die, one third survives with a major neurological condition, and only one third survives in good condition[5].So my advice to new parents is this: DO NOT SHAKE YOUR BABY WHEN FRUSTRATED.Clinicians can easily tell if an injury is from a fall/bump or trauma due to someone else. While controversy remains if all cases of SBS are due to abuse, parents of children exhibiting the triad have, in addition to losing custody, been jailed or sentenced to death[6].Now can a baby or even an adult injure themselves by shaking their own heads? There is insufficient evidence to indicate so. There may be some very rare cases reported. However, those patients had major predisposing factors such as previous traumatic brain injury or ongoing brain tumour/cyst.For normal people, brain injury will have to be the result of external forces, i.e car accident with abrupt deceleration, boxing match where the head snap violently backwards after a well landed punch.Footnotes[1] Abusive head trauma - Wikipedia[2] Shaken Baby Syndrome: Rotational Cranial Injuries-Technical Report[3] https://www.dontshake.org/pdf/2000esfin.pdf[4] Traumatic shaking – The role of the triad in medical investigations of suspected traumatic shaking[5] Intentional Head Trauma in Infants[6] Doctor who doubted shaken baby syndrome misled courts, panel rules