Bouncing babies...jumping babies...Shaken Baby Syndrome?

If he has good neck control this shouldn't be a concern at all. Bouncing and jumping is completely fine. Most babies love to jump, my son was a jumpaholic from 6 months to 10 months. Actually jumping is what helps their leg muscles develop for walking. So help that little man jump away.

What I understand about shaken baby syndrome, it that is isn't caused by just jumping or movement of that sort. It is violent thrusting of the babies head and neck, back and forth. Everyday movement such as jumping and boucning isn't going to cause Shaken Baby syndrome in a healthy 7 1/2 month old.

Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a form of child abuse that occurs when an abuser violently shakes an infant or small child, creating a whiplash-type motion that causes acceleration-deceleration injuries. In other words, bouncing the baby while burping her is not enough force to cause SBS. You're fine. I mean who doesn't bounce their baby a little when it's time for burping. Tell Grandma, that everything is ok and to relax a little. You're not doing anything to hurt your little girl.

shaken baby syndrome actually can happen until your child is 5. It also has a lot to do with how big the plate's in their head are. Pediatricians advice not to do activities like this even though baby LOVES it. I wasn't told an age on when to start things like this, I was just told until age 5 a child can get SBS. Like from a bigger bro or sis grabbing them and shaking them when they are 3 years old. It can happen.

You'd be having to do some excessive shaking to cause SBS. I highly doubt some bouncing on the knee is going to cause any damage to your son. We do this with Noah and he just giggles away.

"• SBS most often occurs prior to age one and seldom occurs after 2, though may occur to age 6 if extreme violence is used. Infants 2-4 months are most at risk."

So your son isn't out of the clear yet but is out of the age it happens the most.

you would have to shake a baby pretty hard to give a baby shaken baby syndrome......bouncing on the knees is innocent play and u really have nothing to worry about

Under a year you need to be extra careful, a little knee bouncing won't cause any damage to a seven month old though. As long as his head isn't moving like a bobble head he'll be perfectly fine.

The nurse was an idiot.

Any rational person that saw a baby being shaken to the point of causes shaken baby syndrome would clearly recognize it as abuse.

That's not to say you can't hurt a baby bouncing them vigorously -but it won't cause shaken baby syndrome, nor permanent damage.

http://www.dontshake.org/sbs.php?topNavID=&subNavI...

he American Academy of Pediatrics Technical Report on shaken baby syndrome reads:

The act of shaking leading to shaken baby syndrome is so violent that individuals observing it would recognize it as dangerous and likely to kill the child. Shaken baby syndrome injuries are the result of violent trauma. The constellation of these injuries does not occur with short falls, seizures, or as a consequence of vaccination. Shaking by itself may cause serious or fatal injuries. In many instances, there may be other forms of head trauma, including impact injuries. Thus, the term shaken/slam syndrome (or shaken-impact syndrome) may more accurately reflect the age range of the victims (who are not always babies) and the mechanisms of injury seen. Such shaking often results from tension and frustration generated by a baby's crying or irritability, yet crying is not a legal justification for such violence...

...Shaken baby syndrome awareness programs that erroneously state that shaken baby syndrome may be caused by bouncing a child on a knee, by tossing him in the air, or even by rough play are to be discouraged, because they are inaccurate and may cause parents who have not abused their child to feel guilty. (American Academy of Pediatrics [AAP], 2001)

Additionally the National Association of Medical Examiners Ad Hoc Committee on Shaken Baby Syndrome states:

...experts in many scientific fields have investigated whether such apparently innocent practices as tossing a baby into the air and other playful maneuvers might cause brain damage by a similar shaking mechanism. Currently, it is generally accepted that such playful practices do not result in injuries to the young child's brain. The type of shaking that is thought to result in significant brain injury involves holding the child by the thorax or an extremity and violently shaking the child back and forth, causing the head to forcefully whiplash forward and backward with repeated accelerations and decelerations in each direction. (Case et al., 2001)

http://www.peacehealth.org/KBASE/topic/mini/hw1698...

Normal play, such as bouncing a child on a knee or gently tossing a child in the air, does not cause shaken baby syndrome.

Shaken baby syndrome occurs mostly in children younger than 3, and is most common in babies younger than 1 year of age. But it also can affect children up to age 5. Shaken baby syndrome can cause serious long-term problems.

What causes the brain injury?

Shaking or throwing a child, or slamming the child against an object causes uncontrollable forward, backward, and twisting head movement. Brain tissue, blood vessels, and nerves tear. The child’s skull can hit the brain with force, causing brain tissue to bleed and swell.

Young children are most likely to have brain injury when they are shaken or thrown because they have:

* Heavy, large heads for their body size.

* Weak neck muscles that do not hold up the head well.

* Delicate blood vessels in their brains.

Babies Jumping

Im sure that you are safe..as long as you arent like purposly just shaking his head hardly and roughly..im pretty sure when he turns a year old that he will be fine and you wont have to worry about it

Imagine your child has a jellyfish in his skull. Imagine next what PETA would do if they learned you were bouncing your baby. I suggest you find some other way to baffle CSI specialists.