Reminder: Never Shake a Baby

Camryn Jakeb Wilson not long before the violence that changed our lives and ended his

Yesterday we went grocery shopping and Micke was wearing his Baby Camryn Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness T-shirt. The front has "Camryn Jakeb Wilson" with his birth date and death date on it and on the back it says "Never Shake A Baby! My nephew died because he cried." Which actually, he died at the hands of a violent and angry man who let his jealousy rule him and he shook and beat his dear infant son because he was angry that his wife paid more attention to the baby than to him. He admitted that in court and in front of basically everyone. At the time of the creation of the shirt we thought it was because Camryn was crying and his father could not handle the baby properly. It was quite devastating and to this day I hate discussing it. Anyway Micke was wearing that shirt and a stock person in Wal-Mart asked him about the shirt. Micke explained the horrific story and the woman told us of her grand son who had a similar fate of dying to SBS.

It was really sad but soon we all moved past one another and went back about our business. I wish more people realized how stupid and dangerous shaking an infant or toddler can be. It is better to let a baby cry than to watch them die. I mean it. I watched my nephew die after having no activity left in his brain thanks to the horrors caused by his dad. No undo button on life, once you hurt a child like that you cannot undo their suffering or the suffering and pain of their family members. Its there written on their minds forever. And for the baby he or she will become a mere shell of their former existence.

RIP Camryn Wilson January 2008-March 2008.