No Baby Ever Asks To Be Shaken

Before we had a baby, my husband and I laughed at the brochure our midwife gave us saying we should never, ever shake our baby. What a silly ad campaign, we thought. What kind of monster would do that? Today, however, was the kind of day when I realize why public health officials feel the need to spell it out.

I won't go into the details, except to say that they involve a shrieking baby who doused himself in lemonade in the middle of a restaurant, and then later pooped on the floor of his bedroom. He did not, however, get shaken.