There are plenty of stories of women in labor losing their tempers, shrieking and cursing, and generally doing things that they wouldn’t dream of doing at any other time. And most of these stories are true. When a woman is in child labor, somewhere inside, someone turns the volume on her heart all the way up and plugs in four amps. What may have been just a murmur of discontent under ordinary circumstances turns into a deafening shriek in the delivery room. Put another way, the pregnant woman is about to have a number of people come and visit her heart; and this company is going to see how well she has kept her heart in order. . . . Bitterness, when given the chance, will spring up and defile many. It is the sort of sin that easily pollutes others. If a woman goes into labor and has any sort of bitterness within her, it is a fairly certain thing that the delivery room will see this bitterness springing up and causing trouble.
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"There are plenty of stories of women in labor losing their tempers, shrieking and cursing, and generally doing things that they wouldn’t dream of doing at any other time."OK. What's your point? Pain can do things like that to one's demeanor.
"And most of these stories are true."
So, what?
"When a woman is in child labor, somewhere inside, someone turns the volume on her heart all the way up and plugs in four amps.
Colorful, but quite inaccurate.
"What may have been just a murmur of discontent under ordinary circumstances turns into a deafening shriek in the delivery room."
It can hurt, you knucklehead. It can also be a time of great anxiety. Pain and anxiety compound each other's effects.
"Put another way, the pregnant woman is about to have a number of people come and visit her heart; and this company is going to see how well she has kept her heart in order. . . ."
Again, colorful, but inaccurate. She may be under great stress, but those who love her should be prepared to forgive her less than model behavior.
"Bitterness, when given the chance, will spring up and defile many."
It's the pain talking. Deal with it, assbite. Or, do you treat your wife so poorly you're afraid of what she might say about you?
"It is the sort of sin that easily pollutes others. If a woman goes into labor and has any sort of bitterness within her, it is a fairly certain thing that the delivery room will see this bitterness springing up and causing trouble."
Why don't you worry about how SHE feels and not so much about what she may say about you? You seem quite the shallow asshat, Ben.
You know, BEN , maybe, just maybe, you aren't exactly qualified to comment on how a woman feels during child birth, on account of, you know... you being a man, and all. So why don't you shut up, please? her 'lil sucker was born.
I haven't had my baby yet, but I wish to god that Ben could be in the delivery room with me just so I can yank his balls off every time I get a contraction and see how many obscenities he spouts off!
It couldn't be that pain brings with it some psychological effects, such as a shitty mood?
I'll just add my voice to the chorus of "Amens" here.
It's the pain, the fact she's probably been awake at odd hours while in that pain, and the sheer physical exertion. As someone who has gone through this fairly recently, this guy is full of it.
Of course, you´re a man. Otherwise, you wouldn´t understand the problem BECAUSE IT HURTS LIKE A DEMON.Are you serious, you stupid misogynist?
Mad Dog: Nitrous Oxide probably crosses the placental barrier and would affect the child, or may have a side effect of slowing labor.
What's Ben's point? That a woman will scream and curse when her uterus is going into spasms and her vagina is being stretched to the size of a coconut?
"My labors were too fast to be really effective, and being a redhead, I require too much anesthetic to be feasible."image
"If you don't know what you're talking 'bout, shut up!"
My God, Hadenlith is so creative and original, repeating the same posts over and over again!
Coming from a man that doesn´t know what the HELL a labour hurts. Please, tell me that your wife, if you have, hasn´t got any children.
Women would also not dream of passing a handball-sized object through an opening the size of a golf ball, at any other time either, asshole!
When a woman is in labor, she needs every single bit of strength/force that her body can muster.
The people visiting after child-birth are more interested in the new baby, than in the woman's heart, silly.
Everyone, who has either gone through labor, or has any imagination, fully understand that the woman is not completely "herself" during the later stages of delivery, and won't blame her for anything that she did or said then. She will probably not remember it, the new father don't want to remember, and everyone else mostly pretends that they don't remember either.
Confused?
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