Men hooked up to machine which simulates the pain of childbirth

A hospital in the city of Jinan in eastern China's Shandong Province is hooking men up to a childbirth simulator to see what their partner's go through. Most of the volunteers are partners of pregnant women and are reduced to tears within minutes. Continue...

The hospital said they want to show men how much women suffer through childbirth, and to give men greater respect for what women go through.

'The event was aimed at creating awareness and more respect for childbearing women, especially highlighting the entire laborious nine-month process leading up to birth,' a hospital spokesman told CEN.

To recreate the contractions and pain of childbirth, hospital technicians used machines to stimulate the men's abdomens with electric shocks to make it contract.

Some men seemed reluctant— having been dragged there by their partners— while others were more enthusiastic, CEN reported.

'My wife is expecting a baby in three months, and we had a row when I told [her] not to make such a fuss,' father-to-be Guang Liao, 29, told CEN. 

It is not the first time the system has been used. On Mother's Day, male volunteers in Nanchang City, in south China's Jiangxi province, were hooked up to complex machines that provided them with a painful taste of what women go through in labour.

Some 20 men went on a local TV show to submit to the pains that women endure.

The challenge consisted of ten levels of pain with an agony scale from 50 to 500.

Another man, Lee Hao, said: 'This was incredible. I couldn't stand much of it all. I understand now why my wife screamed for drugs when she was giving birth.'

Zhou Nan successfully stuck to the end and hit the 500 mark.

'I am the father of triplets and wanted to understand the great pain my wife experienced when she was giving birth,' he said. 'It was horrible. I have nothing but deep admiration for all mothers after this ordeal.'

Source: Daily Mail