Libby was stabilised and she seemed to be making good progress.
The medical team were keen to transfer her to a bigger city hospital to carry out more tests to see if she was okay. We consented to full body scans, MRIs and further tests, naively thinking they were trying to find what was wrong with our precious daughter. We had no idea that they were pursuing one angle only.
Tests revealed that Libby had suffered a subdural hemorrhage, the classic presentation for a child victim to shaken baby syndrome (SBS). The process snowballed and my daughter was transferred to a bigger hospital where a skeletal x-ray showed she had a healing rib fracture, the second classic presentation for SBS.
Their truth was now clear, they believed that one or both of us had shaken Libby and the response procedures began in earnest.
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