I did, I was there, and it was something we experienced together.
As it was DESIGNED to be experienced in my view.
Your nociceptors really weren't firing as much as your wife's. You did not experience it.
Hmmmm,
like the folks who believe that the pain a woman suffers in childbirth is the punishment of Eve.... It's wrong to take away the pain because, well...women are supposed to suffer!!!
Oh, yeah...
and you haven't been through the pain of childbirth. Only your wife.
Pain during childbirth was a consequence of Eve's sin, not the original design. Should we not treat pain arising from other conditions either because we were "designed to have pain?"
you know, if you have a healthy baby on the other end, that is reward enough. i personally thought the women screaming their guts out in natural childbirth were nuts. you do not get a GIRLSCOUT badge or other award for having done it without drugs.