Never Shake A Baby!

One of the leading causes of severe brain injury among toddlers is shaken baby syndrome (SBS). This injury is caused by a whiplash effect that occurs when an infant or small child is shaken.

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Even if it's only for a couple seconds, permanent damage might occur. Babies have large heads in proportion to their bodies and their neck muscles and ligaments aren't fully developed so their head really flops around. If a young child is shaken violently and get abusive ead trauma, their brain may bounce off of the inside of the skull and sustain all types of damage. There could be bruising, hemorrhaging (bleeding), or scraping and cutting of the brain tissue. The inside of the skull is very rough so if the brain moves against it, damage is likely to occur.

Toddlers are clumsy by nature as they haven't been walking for very long. Once they learn to run, the dangers of them getting a head injury increases a lot. Toddlers tend to not watch where they are going and many times have the potential to smack their heads on all kinds of household objects such as coffee tables, open drawers, wooden couch parts, ottomans, and almost any corner of every wall in your house. Young children fall down quite often and don't quite have the reflexes to cover their head and face. This is why you see toddlers with big lumps on their foreheads and scrapes on their faces. It can be hard to keep an eye on a toddler all the time as they are running and playing constantly.

As babies get better at running, jumping, and climbing, their chances of getting a head injury increase but at the same time, they are getting smarter and really don't like to fall down. A good way to keep your toddler from getting a head injury is to teach them to put their hands up if they fall, and try to fall onto their hands if they can. You should keep stairs blocked with a baby gate and make sure siblings follow rules like "No hitting or throwing ". This can be difficult if not impossible to enforce all the time, but if you do your best and use encouragement, you should be able to stop siblings from fighting a little.

Toddlers sustain closed-skull injuries much more than penetrating skull injuries. This is mostly due to falling and running into things. My brother loved to run into the coffee table at full speed after rounding a corner. He got the nickname "Lumpy" from this behavior as a couple times in one month he did it and would have a huge knot on his forehead. We eventually put the table on the back deck so he wouldn't sustain any brain damage. Luckily, toddlers don't have the ability to move as fast as adults so when they fall or trip, they are usually going pretty slowly to begin with. Toddlers are also very short so the distance from their head to the ground isn't that much.