I would say to the men out there, that if you are trying to compare the pain of childbirth to something, it's more like someone reaching their fist up through your pee-hole (after spending some time stretching it out first), grappling up through your internal organs, taking a huge handful of them and pulling them back out through that hole......only doing it very slowly so that it takes at least 6 hours - maybe 16. It's the most gawd-awful, excruciating, all enveloping pain imaginable......anything that hurts so much that you beg to have a huge, hollowed out needle shoved into the depths of your spinal clolumn to numb it, can't ever be fully explained. I am a tough girl......I can take broken bones and bad crashes and impacts....but the thought of having another baby will send me into the fetal position in some corner of a dark closet. Just sayin.......
PS - That being said, guys are just better at taking hits.....if they weren't, you'd see a LOT more women in fighting sports.....