"Newborns do feel pain" reads the opening line of a 1987 New York Times article.
This reality came to light after decades of pressure from parents and laypeople pushed the medical monopoly to review the science.
Muscle relaxants and laughing gas were futile as it turned out.
The author Philip M. Boffey wrote that 77% of the babies who underwent surgery to repair a blood vessel defect between 1954-1983 worldwide did so without pain-killing drugs.
Several studies in the 1940s showed that babies did not respond to pinpricks in the arm like older kids and thus were immune to pain. Experts explained that this fact was due to an immature nervous system and other internal factors.
The way we wake up tells us a lot about ourselves, yet few people pay attention.
You feel the quality of your rest physically and mentally.
I’ve asked many sleep-deprived clients to describe the first two hours of their day.
This thread presents some common themes:
1/ Physical Pain
Some people wake up to the sound of pain instead of an alarm, a loud scream from one or multiple places in their bodies.
Waking up is a physical battle for them.
2/ Heavy Brain
Many people describe this heavy feeling of the brain. Their bodies get out of bed just fine, but their brains feel like an anvil or foggy sometimes for 2-4 hours.