There are many levels and types of pain and everyone handles them differently. Whether it is hitting your funny bone, jamming a finger in the door, or scraping your knee, they all hurt. However, it has been said that there is no type of pain that can even come close to that experienced by women during childbirth. Mothers understand this and, for the longest time, men never could. Now males, or anyone else who has never gone through labor, can experience the excruciating pain for themselves and see what women mean when they talk about the agonizing experience.
In this video by How Do We Get Pregnant?, two men are first seen talking about how women likely exaggerate the pain of labor and claim that they could handle it. They then go to a doctor who will put them through a simulated birthing experience by placing several electrodes on their abdomens. Over the course of an hour electrical shocks are periodically administered that simulate the contractions a woman feels during labor.
The level of shocks and corresponding pain gradually increase and the responses of the men receiving them get more and more dramatic. The previously tough guys are now doubled over in pain, gasping, crying out, and grunting in displeasure. They clearly did not expect the experience to be so torturous and are eating their earlier words.
It’s even funnier when their wives come and join them in the room. They watch, highly amused, as their husbands writhe around in agony begging for it to stop. The women offer support and teach breathing techniques to help, but they also high five each other and laugh as the men grab their hands and beg them for mercy.
One guy almost quits but his wife convinces him to continue through the final 10 minutes that he has left to endure. By the end of their simulated labor the men are clearly zapped of all strength and admit that the whole experience was much, much, much worse than they ever imagined.
The final part of the video is the best. The men praise mothers, and especially their own, for going through labor to give them life. They apologize for all the pain they may have put them through and end it with a heartfelt happy mother’s day!
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