<font color="purple">So I've heard that the NICU (Short for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) are taking greater precautions to reduce the number of painful procedures that the babies go through per day. It was once thought that babies don't really "feel" pain, but scientific studies show that babies actualy feel pain moreso then adults do, and that expiriencing alot of pain as an newborn/infant can lead to exagerated pain responses/emotional instability as adults. So, they are trying to reduce the number of painful procedures that the babies have to endure.

I'm just saying this because 1.) It's interesting news, and 2.) this news sorta applies to me. I was born at 27 weeks (which is about 3 months early) and had to spend my first three months in the NICU. It makes me sort of wonder, how many of those procedures did I have to go through? After all, I was born 3 years shy of 2 decades ago, and they didn't have some of the treatments that they have now.

An article that I found relating to this </font>