Charlie

More Than 220 young children in the UK, or hurt were shaken as a result of being in the last ten years, the analysis of the NSPCC has found to pay.

Serious case reviews were carried out in order to 1,253 children, with almost one in six of these reports, statements had the youngster a brain injury suffered.

child protection expert Dr. Suzanne Smith said she believed the figure was "the tip of The Iceberg ".

she directs a scheme in Yorkshire to help the parents avoid to lose the control.

Dr. Smith, a former protection nurse in Leeds, who founded the program, said: "I have seen the devastating effects of the shaking of babies in hospitals died in which babies or suffered extremely severe disability, and we need to do more to prevent it. "

Joanne Peacock's son, Charlie , was left with cerebral palsy and blind after he was shaken by his father in their house in Huddersfield, when he was 16 weeks old.

She Said : "I came out of the shower to find Charlie gray, lifeless, not breathing, in his father's arms with no explanation.

"We didn't think he was even up to The Hospital .

"they told us to go for the worst case scenario to prepare that his injuries were equivalent to a high-Speed Car accident, because he rocked that nod. "

her ex-partner Paul Sykes was in jail for four years in 2009 after serious injury.

Charlie said, now 12, had brought a "fantastic boy", of joy in The Family life, but he restrictions on movement and need life-long Care had.

Mrs Peacock now helps to shake awareness of the impact on the infant.

"The Most important thing for me from what happened with Charlie , the reduction in The Number of babies that happened," She Said .

the BBC's analysis found that 1,253 serious case reviews published by the NSPCC the website from 2008 to 2018, 229 of these cases, it was about a child shaken - often referred to as shaken-baby syndrome.

A serious case review would be triggered, if a child had been abused or neglected, resulting in damage or death, and there was concern about the way a public authority or person The Child had to be respected.

Because the government has not kept official statistics on The Number of cases of injury to babies by shaking, experts believed, the sentence was likely to be higher.

research has shown, to cry, to be The Most likely trigger for shaken-baby syndrome, a condition referred to medically as abusive head trauma (AHT).

Helen Westerman, lead to national protection at the NSPCC, said: "We are aware of the full extent of the problem.

"We know that many parents do, shake your baby, do not do it deliberately, you do it in the spur of the moment, if something is broken or gone wrong, and most of the parents want to look like you are done with it. "

John McMullan, a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at Sheffield Children's Hospital, said, shaking a baby causes brain injury similar to that in Boxing.

But he said: "In Boxing, the incidence of head strikes are relatively rare, and so that damage to take a seat on, typically, years.

"whereas, with a small child shaking, the damage occurs in seconds. "

Dr. Smith ' s campaign, called ICON: babies cry, you Can Cope with, has already been offered by some health trusts across the country, but introduced in New York by November.

It is supplied with a program, interventions, and awareness raising, are in different stages before and after the birth of a baby, crying for parents and caregivers to cope with.

"Not many parents realize that it is normal to raise that baby, crying about her early life," She Said .

"don't you feel very helpless and feel guilty that you stop it. "

Elaine Hanzak remembered as The Day you lost control in a flash, she moved to be happy, all of a sudden with an urge to harm your baby.

"I honestly feel like I could quite easily smash his head against The Wall , shake him, him over the railing. I just feel that he ruined My Life ," she recalls.

At this point, Ms Hanzak had been diagnosed with post-natal depression, and although she received medication and support, she was still a "mask" and act as if everything is in order.

she described as a "sliver of rational thought" kicked in and she put her baby safely back in his cradle, before walking away, and seek help.

Ms Hanzak, said her traumatic birth, sleep deprivation and the guilt that she felt harassed and led them to The Brink of despair.

"I was used to living with ticks in the boxes," She Said . "I had everything. A nice house, a nice husband, a good career.

"It was a real Wake-up call for me that the biggest thing that I always wanted in life, it was a mother, it was to be, ultimately, seems to be what could be my biggest downfall. "

activist Dr. Smith said: "We have a very good health Care , but the little bit of crying is often the parents and not the focus on professionals.

"In America and Canada, you can have programs the (level) of abusive head trauma, but here we were not really doing something to and for me had to change.

"Our message is very simple. It is to say, the small child crying is normal, it will stop, and it is OK to walk for a few minutes, as long as your baby is safe. "

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Inside Out (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) examined the question of the shaken-baby-syndrome on Bbc One at 19:30 BST on Monday, 7. October, and can also be seen afterwards on the iPlayer.

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