Babies are very special people.
Not just because they are tiny and helpless and inspire our love, but because babies are also especially vulnerable to injury, particularly burns. More than a hundred babies in Central New York are burned seriously enough each year to be hospitalized. A burn that might only cause discomfort to an adult could be very serious and terribly painful to a baby. The baby's skin is far more sensitive than the adult's. And because the baby is small, every square inch of burned skin is far more significant than it would be for an adult.