[jsarno]

Originally Posted by angryssg

For the sake of arguement, how many times in a womans life will she give birth. Well, judging by the average American family 2 1/2, so we'll just round that up to 3. The average length of labor is approx 4 hours. So a woman will go through roughly 12 hours of terrible pain in her life due to labor.

Just wanted to point out that woman are not in constant pain during labor. They happen in waves. The first labor pains could be 30 minutes apart and last 3 seconds. The last will be under 3 minutes in frequency and last maybe 5-9 seconds. Point being, it's not constant.