These are birth pains.
Someone needs to get an epidermal.
Going through that without drugs is just irresponsible.
Unfortunate choice of metaphor.
Done it myself, three times, by choice, sans anesthesia. Great success, wide-awake babies. How ‘bout you?
;-)
Seriously, “keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. . .So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”