I know this question is kinda hard to answer since you can't experience both, but I was having a debate with my boyfriend's friends. I'm 7 months pregnant now with my first kid & his friend's trying saying "don't be afraid of childbirth, studies show that getting hit in the balls hurts 300x more than labor/birth" Is this true? or are they being dramatic? They tried saying that after the baby comes out women forget instantly of the pain so that it can't be that bad. But I've never heard of a guy having to take lamaze classes & get an epidural because the pain is THAT unbearable.
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You can't compare one to the other because the pain of being kicked in the genitals lasts what? an hour? Maybe a little more? The average labor for a first-time mom is 18 hours. Granted, it doesn't hurt for 18 hours, and most women do push the memory of the pain to the back of the mind, but you can't discount the postpartum pain that many women experience. Sorry, guys, but you're full of it. There's nothing that compares to an unmediated, natural birth (all 3 of mine were born at home), and I have a pretty high pain tolerance. Totally worth it 😀
I'm pretty sure that men would die - literally die - if they had to experience the pain of childbirth. My husband has a very high pain tolerance (once played half a game of rugby on a broken ankle, figuring it was just a sprain). However, when he watched me in the labor and delivery room, he said he actually felt sick to his stomach watching, because it looked so painful, and he was pretty sure I was going to die. (For the record, I was not about to die either time - these were pretty much normal deliveries.)
I have to hand it to the ladies who did it without medication - I had epidurals both times, and it still hurt! :-P
Men don't get their period, so the subject of birth is equally abstract. Try telling guys they first need to get used to getting hit in the balls every month for years, before they get hit with "the big one". To be honest, I didn't have an epidural, and I kept falling asleep when I was supposed to push. More accurately, giving birth is like having a big BM through the wrong hole. Literally. And any guy can relate to how that might feel, we both have small holes to urinate. And the journey down the little chute is inside our bodies, while theirs hangs off the outside.
