How would you know, gypsysailor? That's an old myth from the days when women were rendered totally unconscious until well after the birth. I still remember the intensity of the pain from my daughter's birth over 40 years ago.
Why would evolution prepare women for the pain of childbirth any more than it prepares everyone for the pain of cancer or a broken leg? Evolution is about survival, not comfort and in any event, it's evolution which has given us larger heads and the ability to walk upright, both of which factors effect the difficulty of birth in humans.
I agree with the sentiments at the end of your post, except that adoption isn't necessarily a simple or trauma free event for the adoptees, either at the point of adoption or later in life.
Well, it may indeed be out of date, but it was a common thread in psych journals when I was in college and still is a common philosophy.
Neither of my wives wanted a second child immediately after birthing, but but later both stated that perhaps it wasn't really all that bad. Go figure, according to you it seems they were both lying, for some unknown reason.
I was only trying to make the girl feel better, but I guess you're telling me I'm full of shit and should keep my mouth shut, if I have no personal experience with something.
IIN that I'm so afraid of giving birth that I don't want to have kids?
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How would you know, gypsysailor? That's an old myth from the days when women were rendered totally unconscious until well after the birth. I still remember the intensity of the pain from my daughter's birth over 40 years ago.
Why would evolution prepare women for the pain of childbirth any more than it prepares everyone for the pain of cancer or a broken leg? Evolution is about survival, not comfort and in any event, it's evolution which has given us larger heads and the ability to walk upright, both of which factors effect the difficulty of birth in humans.
I agree with the sentiments at the end of your post, except that adoption isn't necessarily a simple or trauma free event for the adoptees, either at the point of adoption or later in life.
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Well, it may indeed be out of date, but it was a common thread in psych journals when I was in college and still is a common philosophy.
Neither of my wives wanted a second child immediately after birthing, but but later both stated that perhaps it wasn't really all that bad. Go figure, according to you it seems they were both lying, for some unknown reason.
I was only trying to make the girl feel better, but I guess you're telling me I'm full of shit and should keep my mouth shut, if I have no personal experience with something.