Baby in car when shunted.

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Full disclosure I have anxiety and catastrophise really bad.

We were in a queue for fireworks today. 9 month old asleep in back and three year old awake next to baby.

Car goes into the back of us. Felt like a stall, not super hard but a shunt.
Baby woke. Seemed ok, not crying out etc.
Three year old seemed fine. Upset that I was super.

I'm now driving myself insane with whether baby is harmed. Behaviour is normal, although usually a terrible sleeper and done two hours straight now.

Would you be worried? Has it happened to you?
Only medical option is to go sit in a and e for hours on end, which husband feels is extreme as seems fine and no signs of issues.

Sorry for aibu but looking for traffic. (No, I can't be treated for anxiety, it's part of my neurodiversity profile)

But your baby can cry? And would do if they were in pain, just as your toddler would tell you.

Yeah, and they are fine. Because it was a non event. So....

Maybe look up signs and symptoms of brain damage and internal bleeding and you'll see your baby has none of those things. For those sorts of injuries to occur it would need to be a significant mechanism and you would all be injured. Respectfully, you're massively overreacting.

That sounds like a really low mechanism and extremely unlikely any injury could occur. Probably similar forces to bouncing a buggy down the stairs for example. Babies are a lot tougher than they look!

It sounds like now your baby is happy and well, drinking, normal activities, nothing to suspect anything concerning has happened.

So a low impact shunt where the baby was strapped into an appropriate rear facing seat? I wouldn't expect that to cause any harm.

It wouldn't even occur to me to be worried about this.

Your baby was in a car seat. She's fine.

You should replace the car seat after any accident, it may have been weakened and won't be as protective next time. As for the baby, call 111 if you're concerned but it sounds like you had a lucky escape.

Happened to me. My baby son was fine. AAA*A in his A levels.

I’m sure your baby is fine but yes you would get a baby checked out. I saw a shunting of several cars, not serious but the police got called, and they called medics to check over the baby in the car seat. Why don’t you phone 111 and they can advise whether it’s ok to wait for gp, whether to go to A&E, all just to be safe.