OMG Squirt! Holy hell girl, that was descriptive.
Killer, the pain of childbirth is very individual. Britishchick was right, it's the contractions that hurt the most. Actually pushing the child out wasn't so painful. I was just thankful after 36 hours to finally be able to do that. But my babies were BIG. Kira was over 10 pounds. Ouch! I never really had menstral pain until AFTER childbirth, which sucks big time. But, as I said, everyone is different. The joy they bring though, is worth the nine months I had to endure and any pain the childbirth brought. No lie.