Brain damage or brain injury among babies is the most worrying problem to the parents. There are variety of brain damage or brain injury symptoms and signs in babies or newborns. It also depends on the cause and the severity of the damage or injury of the brain.

Some symptoms of brain damage or brain injury appear immediately during birth, while some are not appear until the child begins to display the developmental problems. Usually, if the brain damage or brain injury symptoms or signs are detected early, doctors can help in treating the baby in order to reduce the brain damage or brain injury symptoms and signs while improving the child’s development. However, the brain damage or brain injury mostly is cannot be changed.

Followings are the symptoms or signs of the brain damage or brain injury that we can see in babies or newborns:

• APPEARANCE
• It is one of the most recognizable symptoms of brain damage or brain injury. Even though not all the brain-damage or brain-injured babies have different features, physical abnormalities are the common sign of a more serious defect.
• Babies or newborns that suffered from brain damage or brain injury will have very small or/and have abnormally tiny skulls, have trouble focusing the eyes, a deformed spine, misshapen facial features and an abnormally large forehead.

• TEMPERAMENT
• Abnormal temperament also is an early brain damage or brain injury symptom of a baby or newborn. Babies or newborns that often crying, won’t eat, won’t sleep lying down, excessively and inexplicably fussy as normal and healthy babies do, then they are suffered from brain damage or brain injury.
• However, it is very important to remember that all babies or newborns are different, and the symptom is not necessarily indicated brain damage or brain injury in your child.

• DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS
• If your baby or newborn does not progress at a normal rate of walking, crawling, toilet training and talking at the expected age, then he or she can be categorized as brain damaged or brain injured because delays in reaching milestones of babies or newborns development is also the symptom or sign of brain damage or brain injury.
• But to make sure whether your baby is suffering from brain damage or brain injury or not, please seek to your doctor.

• OTHER SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
• Brain damage or brain injury symptoms also depending on the type of brain damage or brain injury that the babies have. Different brain injury or brain damage will present different symptoms or signs.
• Some baby with brain damage or brain injury may experience difficulty in breathing, seizures, and low or vary body temperature. For the brain damaged newborns, they may have jaundiced or discolored skin.

If you are experience or notice these symptoms or signs in your baby or newborn, maybe they are suffer from brain problem or brain damage or brain injury. So, immediately contact your professional health care.