“That day, I had a medical appointment and I left Timothée with his dad at home. When I called him, his father told me that our son was unwell and that he was in the hospital. I ran to join them there and saw my baby in great pain,” says Aude. The young woman does not understand what is happening. But she quickly realizes that nothing is right. “Quickly, the doctors gave him a CT scan. And there, they tell me that Timothée suffers from subdural hematomas due to shaken baby syndrome, ”she continues. Timothée is plunged into a coma. Aude will stay with her son for five days, until he dies in her arms. Since then, this mother of a little Louise, 7 years old, has been fighting to make this syndrome known. While a judicial investigation is still in progress,she testifies to make this gesture better known and prevented.
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Each year in France, nearly 500 children are victims of shaken baby syndrome.
10% of them die.
Faced with this mistreatment, which has long remained taboo, the government has just launched an awareness campaign centered on a video spot, chilling, which shows nothing but lets hear, through a baby monitor, the voice of an exasperated father.
“I'm fed up, you're ruining my life, all you can do is cry!
he yells, just before the crying suddenly stops.
A tragedy that Aude experienced in 2019. This executive who lives in the Hauts-de-Seine lost her two-month-old baby, a victim of this syndrome.
