Reply #12: Why do you think this is bullshit?

[PeaceNikki]

If you read the Fabrizi study (primary source), what they're saying is that there is nonspecific brain activity associated with both pain stimuli and touch stimuli from 28 weeks onward but that this activity becomes different and specific for each type of stimulus only from about 35 weeks on. That is to say, the babies appear to develop the capacity to differentiate between painful stimuli and simple touch late in gestation; though there is brain activity that they perceive the stimuli earlier, that activity isn't different for different types of stimuli.

I understand that you have specific experience in seeing your babies react to stimuli outside of the womb at 33 weeks gestation, but this research monitored brain activity and was conducted in scientific (not emotional) terms. If someone has been born then they are NOT IN UTERO. A foetus cannot feel pain until weeks before birth due to the conditions in utero. Once someone has been born, and is no longer subject to the tranquilising conditions in the uterus, then they will react to stimuli but not necessarily pain as we would understand it because their nervous system is still underdeveloped. Once your babies were born, they were almost certainly reacting to stimuli and to being wholly unprepared for life in the outside world.