There is so much that can happen when you shake a baby, or a child. It can cause all the above like Patricia or even death. Shaken Baby Syndrone isn't caused by just shaking a baby. It can be cause by other hazardous activies.

1) Repeated, vigorous tossing of a small child into the air.
2) Jogging while carrying your infant on your back or the shoulders.
3) "Riding a horse" (bouncing on the knees).
4) "Cracking the whip" (swinging the child around their ankles or hands).
5) Spinning the child around (while the child is standing).
These things can happen if you do any of these with your child up to the age of 2.

�� After all this I hope one child will be spared from this happening to them. After you read this story, I hope and pray you will think about Patricia before you get upset with a child. It's not just baby-sitters that do these things to a baby. Its fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, or anyone that has access to a child. Please, take the time to sit down and calm down before anything happens. Take these simple steps to save your child or someone's elses child. If a child is crying and you can't take it any more, put the child in a safe place like a playpen or crib.� Take one or a few of these steps until you calm down.
1) Walk around the outside of the house.
2) Count to 10 or higher until you have calmed down.
3) Change your activity like cleaning around the house or beating a rug. ( I like this idea the best beat a rug not your child.) It won't hurt the child a bit to cry� a while.

� God bless all the children that this has happened to, and all the children that can saved.
Pass this story on and educate everyone that you know that has childen. Let them be aware of the possibilities that can happen to a child when this happens. Thank you for reading Patricia's story.

If you are not throughly convinced that the above story can happen to a child because of Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Remember Patricia's disabilities! Look at her before and after pictures. Now place the face of your child there. Enough said!