Newborn’s pain under the mother’s perception

Does intrauterine tobacco exposure increase the pain perception of newborns?

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess whether there was a difference in the pain-perception levels of newborns born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy and newborns born to mothers who were not exposed to active or passive smoking during pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 60 newborns born by normal spontaneous vaginal birth between June 2013 and June 2014 were included in the stud...

Body Perception in Newborns

Body ownership and awareness has recently become an active topic of research in adults using paradigms such as the "rubber hand illusion" and "enfacement" [1-11]. These studies show that visual, tactile, postural, and anatomical information all contribute to the sense of body ownership in adults [12]. While some hypothesize body perception from birth [13], others have speculated on the importan...

[Congenital malformations among newborns of teenage mothers].

BACKGROUND The Chilean Ministry of Health has reported a meaningful increase of births from teenager mothers (aged less than 20 years) in the period 1990-2008. On the contrary, there was a decrease of births from teenage mothers at The University of Chile Clinical Hospital (HCUCH). AIM To compare the prevalence rates at birth of congenital malformations (CMF) in newborns from mothers younger ...

Pain management in newborns.

As a standard of care for preterm/term newborns effective pain management may improve their clinical and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Neonatal pain is assessed using context-specific, validated, and objective pain methods, despite the limitations of currently available tools. Therapeutic approaches reducing invasive procedures and using pharmacologic, behavioral, or environmental measures are u...

Polybromodiphenyl ethers in mothers and their newborns