“…From the first hours to the first month of life, term and preterm infants undergo painful needle‐related procedures for newborn and jaundice screening, and other blood sampling. Studies conducted in developed and developing countries clearly demonstrate that procedural pain prevention and management in newborn infants is suboptimal across the globe and in most settings newborns do not receive appropriate analgesia (Carbajal et al., ; Courtois et al., ; Harrison, Loughnan, Manias, & Johnston, ; Johnston, Barrington, Taddio, Carbajal, & Filion, ; Kyololo, Stevens, Gastaldo, & Gisore, ; Roofthooft, Simons, Anand, Tibboel, & van Dijk, ; Stevens et al., ). For sick and preterm infants, the number of painful procedures is considered as a strong predictor of poor neurological outcomes (Brummelte et al., ; Doesburg et al., ; Vinall et al., ).…”