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ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2011) A woman goes into labor, and gives birth. The newborn is swaddled and placed to sleep in a nearby bassinet, or taken to the hospital nursery so that the mother can rest. Despite this common practice, new research published in Biological Psychiatry provides new evidence that separating infants from their mothers is stressful to the baby.

It is standard practice in a hospital setting, particularly among Western cultures, to separate mothers and their newborns. Separation is also common for babies under medical distress or premature babies, who may be placed in an incubator. In addition, the American Academy of Pediatrics specifically recommends against co-sleeping with an infant, due to its association with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS.

Back problems are often misdiagnosed. Your pain may have nothing to do with your spine. Theres a good chance it may be nothing more serious than referred pain from myofascial trigger points (tiny contraction knots) in your back muscles, or even in muscles some distance away.

Pain in your low back, for example, can be referred from trigger points in a number of muscles, such as the gluteus medius in your buttocks, as shown in the drawings.