Shaken baby please help!!

[YummyMummy2019]

Feeling like the worst mum ever!

I was playing with baby lastnight after feeding as I always do - he was lay in my arms head in the crook and supported and his body in my arms - in a typical breastfeeding position

Anyway after was smiling away and I was making a silly noise and 'shaking/rattling' him not sure how to describe it. Sort of squeezing him and juggling him while making the noise but keeping him in the position with his head fully supported. Anyway he was smiling when I was doing it hit it suddenly occurred to me that though his head was fully supported against my arm and body could his little brain be rattling around in there?! I wasn't doing it aggressively by any means but it wasn't exactly gentle either as we were playing and he was laughing when I was doing it quite hard! Please help I'm so worried I've hurt him

No this is not the same as the kind of shaking you would have to do to cause harm. If your baby is playing and laughing, they are fine! If just playing with your baby was going to cause damage, so would carrying them around or pushing the pushchair over uneven ground!

Calm down, it's not the same kind of shake as an aggressive shake, he's fine. He wouldn't laugh and enjoy the game if it hurt him. He's not been shaken, he's been jiggled to giggle.

Thank you both

I just realised his little head was moving side to side slightly but obviously fully supported and I worried that his little brain could be moving around.
Like I say I was doing it quite hard and saying silly noises and he was giggling mostly and sometimes looking st me like I was just insane haha

Your head moving side to side doesn't shake your brain in a damaging way, it's fine.

You sound like me a year ago, I honestly kept thinking I'd given my son brain damage so many times from rocking him and going over rocky terrain , he's 13 months and fine now, so far he's fallen out of a high chair , rolled off the bed once (not all with me!) And has lived to tell the tale! I remember waiting anxiously for a week after each incident just to check he was okay , your baby is fine x

Similarly to the poster above I used to worry about my pram bumping on rocky ground and once I was so scared because my pram bumped down a step really hard but honestly don’t worry. Babies are sturdier than you think. I doubt many babies get shaken baby syndrome without actually being violently shaken. It’s not something that could happen just playing a little game with them.

Babies are allowed to move their heads. They are fine and it strengthens neck muscles.
Shaken baby syndrome is very, very different and usually only ever done in real anger. It involves very rapid and hard shaking of a baby without head support.

From day 1 with my baby I had to pull his pram up 3 flights of stairs and sometimes down too. It shook and bumped loads but was too heavy for me to lift. He's absolutely fine and developed quickly for his age. It's easy to worry but babies are tough!