My heart hurts. I think this is old news, but I just heard about it. The first baby born in 2008 is dead. I just saw it on you tube. You tube makes "suggestions" for me. Im always looking at baby videos and apparently they thought I would want to see this one.
Apparently the mom left for some meeting and left the dad in charge of the baby. He was only a couple of months old. The mom came home and everything seemed ok except that she thought the baby was a little sleepy and not breathing quite right.
To be safe she took him to the hospital. The baby had trauma to the rib cage and detached retinas and all of his symptoms were in line with "shaken baby syndrome". The mom was holding her baby when he passed away.
The father is being charged with his murder, and rightfully so.
No matter how hard I try, I cannot bring myself to understand this even a teeny bit.
The dad admitted to getting frustrated and shaking the baby.
I think about Remington, and even when ive gotten frustrated. Believe me, ive been pretty frustrated a time or two. I think about what I was thinking at those times. None of it was ever harsher than "Gosh, Shut up"...Ya know? And of course that was just a passing thought before I took a deep breathe and thought "Alright, I can do this, hes a helpless little baby, he doesnt know that the phone is ringing, the sink is over flowing, the doorbell is ringing, the dog wants out, the CD is skipping and I have to pee like a race horse and his screaming at the top of his lungs bc im not holding him isnt helpin me out any..." Then I pick him up and love him to pieces. And ignore the dog, the flooded kitchen the skipping cd and my bladder.
Never ever did the thought of yelling at him and shaking him not once ever cross my mind. First of all, how could anyone think that would ever in a million years help the situation? I know that if I was upset and someone picked me up and screamed at me and shook me, I would just get more upset. Secondly, duh, babies are extremly fragile and it can obviously kill them.
Its just aweful. If I was that man's wife, id kill him. Id beat him to death. Oh my God, if anyone was to ever lay a hand in an unloving manner on Remington. It would be the last time they ever touched anything.
Just last night I went outside for a second and when I came back Remington was screaming in Phil's arms. I immediatly went into overprotective mother mode and thought Phil did something to him. I walked in trying not to be accusatory "what did you do to him?", gimme a break, hes gotta be cryin for a reason. I was right...Phil scared the shit out of him playing peek a boo...I had to try really hard to not get mad at Phil...lol...
Poor Remington, lol, he hasnt got a clue how much I love him.
And DONT anyone EVER SHAKE A BABY!!! Evil bastard, that man needs to go to prison forever and right before he is about to die in his little empty cell they need to shake him until his brain bleeds.
