The last thing that you as a parent want to consider is the possibility that your child has to go to hospital. We are concerned that a healthcare experience can be traumatic for a child, and this might be true in some instances. Children don't even understand their own bodies, let alone the strange hospital environment with all its unfamiliar sights, sounds and smells. They often hear adult conversations, or they might pick up words or part of a sentence that they don't understand and give their own meaning to it. They Will try to make sense of a current situation according to previous experiences in their lives, which is very limited. Children usually regard pain and suffering as
