Not harmful: Babies do shudder at times and that is normal. Some have repeated shuddering episodes, and may have the infant shudder syndrome. Even though it may appear frightening, infants who have seen experts have no abnormal findings and eventually grow out of it. A good article for doctors, with some video clips is here: http://www.neurology.org/content/70/13/e38.full
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