It gets worse. Did you know that most doctors once believed that infants couldn’t feel pain? “Until as recently as the 1980s, researchers assumed newborns did

It gets worse. Did you know that most doctors once believed that infants couldn’t feel pain? “Until as recently as the 1980s, researchers assumed newborns did not have fully developed pain receptors, and believed that any responses babies had to pokes or pricks were merely muscular reactions.” [https://time.com/3827167/this-is-a-babys-brain-on-pain/ https://time.com/3827167/this-is-a-babys-brain-on-pain/] As a result, doctors would perform surgeries without anesthesia on newborns. This is absolutely mind boggling.