[ExI] pain in childbirth

[Damien Broderick]

At 10:08 PM 8/23/2008 +1000, Stathis wrote:

>Greek uses the same word, "ponos", for pain and the contractions of
>labour. Anyone who has witnessed normal childbirth and says labour
>isn't painful is contemptuous of women.

Fwiw (1 datum point), my wife Barbara reports that childbirth for her 
took a long time and so was pretty exhausting, but that the degree of 
pain involved was comparable to menstrual cramps. She adds that she 
had fairly unpleasant cramps as a young woman.

Damien Broderick