Does childbirth really hurt that much?

Or is it something they all hype up a bit in the safe knowledge that we men can never dispute it?
I only ask because I know some women who won't even paddle in the shallow edge of a coldish ocean, or eat a vindaloo, so it seems a bit unlikely that they'd ever be prepared to endure several hours of intense agony.
What would the male equivalent of pain be? Stubbed toe? Stepping on a piece of Lego? Gentle kick in the nuts?

Some say it's the same a man passing a bladder stone, have you tried that?

No, but I did pass a kidney stone once which is presumeably similar. Slightly uncomfortable with a quite mild internal ache for a few moments. Thanks, that clarifies things nicely.

Did it come out via your penis, did you see it, was it the size of a baby's head? Have you passed anything the size of a baby's head from any orifice?

Your claim of being something other than just a wind up merchant gets less credible by the day EH...

Bladder stones get massive, go google them.

Can't be worse than a really really difficult dump that produces a little blood surely?

Not if you sat on the bog for 12 hours, JKL, I'll give you that.

Apparently I couldn't be bothered to come out when I was born. I was literally born a lazy farker.

eowyn wrote:Did it come out via your penis, did you see it, was it the size of a baby's head? Have you passed anything the size of a baby's head from any orifice?

To answer your questions; yes, yes, no and no.
However, is the hole my kidney stone came out of likely to be as wide as that through which a baby's head generally exits?


(Vilks, I am also a bollox-talker, a rose-tinted glasses wearer and an occasional tw@t , so I thinkl it's unfair to say I'm nothing more than a wind-up merchant. If I am one at all though, then surely I'm a pretty innocuous one.)

ever hopeful wrote: I am also a bollox-talker, a rose-tinted glasses wearer and an occasional tw@t

Crikey, you're almost a man!

Thanks JK! What's missing BTW?

A touch of GRAVITAS


aka heavy BS.

If childbirth is like having a really substantial dump, maybe it's actually pleasurable and not the least bit painful?

Eric Air Emu wrote:If childbirth is like having a really substantial dump, maybe it's actually pleasurable and not the least bit painful?

What Toms actually saying is he rather likes anal sex.

Says the man who's picture is someone with a trumpet stuck up their Harris.

JKLever wrote:

Eric Air Emu wrote:If childbirth is like having a really substantial dump, maybe it's actually pleasurable and not the least bit painful?

What Toms actually saying is he rather likes anal sex.

Nowt wrong with that, providing you are on the right side...

It's a like most things, better out than in at the end of the day. I bet ever hopeful's stones weren't delivered with forceps though...

And Tom, yes, the relief at the end is just as good as having a big dump, though you don't hold a dump in your arms after.


You lot are the biggest bunch of lovable windup merchants ever and I do love you.

pomgolians are funny

I think those who belittle women's effort on this or other forums should try fisting at the hands of Mike Tyson.

I thought on the old 1-10 pain scale the -
average birth was a 7
kidney stone was a 9
acute gout was 10.5

PeterCS wrote:I think those who belittle women's effort on this or other forums should try fisting at the hands of Mike Tyson.

It's certainly worth thinking about. I'm sure it would help me see things in a whole new light. Does he do that on request though, and have you got a number for his agent? Also, you did say "hands" with an s. Was that just a figure of speech? If not, then couldn't I let him start with just the one fist (which after all is probably as big as an average baby's head on its own)?

His agent is available @ biteyerearsoffandfistuatwill.com I'm told.

EH is an odd poster...reminiscent of bucky, gabba dan and henry