Rebeccah Slater

Obviously babies can't tell us about their experience of pain and it is difficult to infer pain from visual observations, in fact some people have argued that babies' brains are not developed enough for them to really feel pain... (yet) our study provides the first really strong evidence this is not the case.

Rebeccah Slater

Our study suggests that not only do babies experience pain but they may be more sensitive to it than adults, if we would provide pain relief for an older child undergoing a procedure, then we should look at giving pain relief to an infant.

Rebeccah Slater