Title: What Is Shaken Baby Syndrome? Symptoms, Signs, Facts
Headings: Shaken Baby Syndrome (Abusive Head Trauma)
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Content: High-risk infants (premature babies, those with chronic medical conditions, etc.) commonly extract an even higher toll on parents. This may be due to the more demanding requirements of such children and/or a belief of an increase in infant vulnerability. For some caregivers, physical punishment represents the only way to free themselves of their frustrations. What are the risk factors for shaken baby syndrome? Risk factors for shaken baby syndrome (as well as other types of inflicted trauma on children) may be conceptualized into two broad categories: Family risk factors
Young and/or single parents
Lower educational background
Unstable family dynamics
Financial/food/housing concerns and stresses
Domestic violence
Drug/ alcohol abuse
Parental mental illness, especially postpartum depression
Limited or no immediate support system (for example, relatives, church groups, etc.) Unrelated adults staying in the home
Infant risk factors
Perinatal risk factors (for example, threatened miscarriage, prematurity, infant malformations, multiple births (twins, triplets, etc.) Colicky infants -- often aggravated by the natural history of increase in infant crying during the first two months of life (see above)
Male gender
Unwanted pregnancy
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