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Can men handle childbirth?

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  • #2
    hollster2
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    haha all men should be put through this while were giving birth lol brilliant!


  • #3
    runawaybishop
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    Can women?


  • #4
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    kitten_k wrote: »
    Seems not!!

    http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/men-experience-labour-764983-Jan2013/

    They look like they handled it about as well as I did. Wish I could have given up after 2 hours though!


  • #5
    seamus
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    Their bodies also hadn't spent nine months pumping them full of hormones and otherwise preparing for it. Two hours seems like they handled it pretty well, looks like it puts the old nonsense about women's higher pain threshold to bed.

    Though it's not really possible to simulate the actual birth process, which is no doubt on another level again.


  • #6
    Das Kitty
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    seamus wrote: »
    Their bodies also hadn't spent nine months pumping them full of hormones and otherwise preparing for it.

    The hormones! They do nothing! :pac:


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  • #7
    MurdyWurdy
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    Das Kitty wrote: »
    The hormones! They do nothing! :pac:

    except make you crazy, sick, weepy and exhausted all at the same time :)


  • #8
    Vel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    I think that if us women going through the labour could flick a switch and opt out after a couple of hours many of us would too but the difference is we can't so we just have to get on with it. If men had to go through it for real then they'd be just as able as the women because they'd have no choice but to be!


  • #9
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I've had two children and I can't handle childbirth. I had epidurals with both. I didn't feel a single contraction on my first and only a few on my second. I think fair play to them for lasting two hours.


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