Letters to the Editor
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WOW AKA
If I ever deserved diamonds for anything, it was all that pushing. The pain of labor is the main reason my daughter is an only child. Those women who say that they had an easy time of it make me want to buy a punching bag and put their picture on it.
You deserve a Nobel Prize. You just answered the question scientists worldwide are still pondering.
What is the purpose of pain in childbirth?
It is Darwinism's way of weeding out those mothers not strong and magnanimous enough to put up with some momentary pain in order to breed.
Figure, a child, while a pleasure some of the time, is a pain a lot of the time too. What better way for natural selection to select in favor of self sacrificing mothers who will be less prone to harm their child in some way should they become irate or lose control?
Nature abhors a vacuum, and a mother/child that is not amenable and beneficial to the tribe becomes a burden or, worse, a potential ticking time bomb of their own.
In this way, drugs taken to lessen pain are creating lots of moms incapable of being those good mothers who would be patient enough to see a child's unbringing through without becoming a mommy monster at some point.
Actually, since I came up with the concept, I deserve my [now] THIRD Nobel Prize. I'll just pat m'self on the back...