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Wow... that's terrible. If being in pain during childbirth was a way to create a stronger bond AND we actually believed it, we'd jab fathers with hot pokers wh
by igetspam 5y ago
Wow... that's terrible.
If being in pain during childbirth was a way to create a stronger bond AND we actually believed it, we'd jab fathers with hot pokers while the mother was in labor. Pain would be a shared experience and we'd all bond. But that's not what would actually happen. We'd have a lot less childbirth if men had to endure physical pain during the hours of labor. It's more likely that they just wanted women to suffer for some fictional sin they found in one of their fantasy novels about gods.
There's no way I'd have participated in the suffering of childbirth. Women who do it are tough and I just don't have it in me to suffer like that for a kid. Perhaps I'm unique in that but I doubt it.
- renewiltord 5y agoFor what it's worth, the screaming did not correlate with amount of anaesthetic administered. As a doctor, her role was definitely to ensure safety of mother and child and appropriate care for the mother, which she fulfilled. Absence of screaming was culturally believed to be evidence of lack of pain, however. And lack of pain was culturally believed to be evidence of lack of bond. And lack of bond so observed by family would be shameful for the mother. Fortunately, few women in this culture ever failed to form a bond with their children through this mechanism, so little shame was experienced. One can only conclude that our conventional mechanisms of analgesia do not function for people in this culture for some reason.