Introduction: Pain and Suffering from the Womb Onwards? -- Introduction: Pain and Suffering from the Womb Onwards? -- Delivery and Pain -- Gonadal Hormones and Pain Modulation -- Stress and Pregnancy: CRF as Biochemical Marker -- Pain Control During Labour -- Fetal Pain -- Ultrasound and Fetal Stress: Study of the Fetal Blink-Startle Reflex Evoked by Acoustic Stimuli -- Prenatal Affective Exchanges and Their Subsequent Effects in Postnatal Life -- Pain in the Fetus -- New Insights into Prenatal Stress: Immediate and Long-Term Effects on the Fetus and Their Timing -- Neonatal Pain -- Pain Assessment and Spectral Analysis of Neonatal Crying -- Analgesic Procedures in Newborns -- Nonpharmacological Treatment of Neonatal Pain -- Sensory Saturation: An Analgesic Method -- Pharmacologic Analgesia in the Newborn -- Physical Stress Risk Agents in Incubators -- Pain: a Risk Factor for Brain Damage -- Neonatal Stressors -- New Insights into Neonatal Hypersensitivity -- From the Gate-Control Theory to Brain Programs for Neonatal Pain -- Pain and Communication -- Disclosure of Pathology to the Newborn's Family -- Communication of Diagnosis: Pain and Grief in the Experience of Parents of Children with a Congenital Malformation -- Invest in Prenatal Life: a High-Yield Stock.