the pain issue

[Guest guest]

I don't have the research to back this up, but based on things I have heard

before and based on just watching my own two babies grow I believe there is some

truth to the theory that babies do feel pain - But not to the degree adults feel

due to their immature nervous system. You can watch your baby or toddler get a

boo-boo and you cringe thinking " Man that's gotta hurt! " but the child acts as

if he felt nothing. They can laugh off a head-bump that leaves a big old goose

egg on their forehead! Or accidently cut their fingernail too short - we all

know how bad that hurts us, but they hardly react to it. Look at how we wad

them up all day long in various positions, in their stroller, car seat, just

holding them or putting those tight little head bands around their skull or

tight shoes or pinching waist band on a pair of pants.... and if they are

uncomfortable the little one's can't even move their self to a more comfortable

position yet they rarely exhibit any signs of pain or discomfort. I really

don't think babies feel AS MUCH as adults do. Some, yes, but not as much.

Part of it might even be psychological - as adults we know things might hurt,

or will hurt, so we prepare to be in pain and then we are in pain but maybe

babies don't know that yet so they aren't as tuned in to pain as we are?

just something to think about.

s.

I just don't understand why they think because babies don't form the words that

the pain doesn't hurt just the same. I wrote that my brother got stitches

without novacaine, but left out that he screamed like nothing I have ever heard

during the whole process. I am sure he had thought of some words to form after

that stupid decision......