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Two European TV Hosts Try to Experience the Pain of Childbirth — How Long Do You Think They Lasted?

Jan. 19, 2013 8:07pm
Dutch TV Hosts Dennis Storm and Valerio Zena Try to Simulate Pain of Childbirth for Guinea Pigs

Dennis Storm and Valerio Zena begin their experiment. (Photo: Screen Shot)

Dutch television hosts Dennis Storm and Valerio Zena entered territory no man can quite comprehend during their recent broadcast of the show Guinea Pigs — childbirth.

They tried, though, hooking themselves up to machines that reportedly simulate the pain of contractions.

Dutch TV Hosts Dennis Storm and Valerio Zena Try to Simulate Pain of Childbirth for Guinea Pigs

Midway into the experiment, the television hosts lose their grins. (Photo: Screen Shot)

The Huffington Post describes how it went:

“Do you think the pain will make us scream?” Zeno asks before the shocks begin.

One of the nurses responds bluntly: “Yes, it definitely will.”

She wasn’t lying.

Propped on a bed with electrodes attached to their abdomens, Storm and Zeno last through two hours of the simulated contractions. Though they try to laugh through the strain, the men appear to be in complete misery as they double over and clutch pillows tightly.

While the time span of the simulation was much shorter than many instances of real-life labor, Storm and Zeno appeared to get the full experience. In the end, Zeno sums up the challenge as torture and wonders if he wants his wife to go through the same pain.

The video does not have subtitles, but the scene is one that transcends linguistic barriers:

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  • paulsfam4
    Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:44am

    I had bowel movements! that came close, And bye the way we pay for it our whole marriage..

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 11:15am

      ewwww…this should not be the first post you read when opening the article. imho

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    • john141714
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 3:20pm

      I get these headaches once a year for about a week that are called cluster headaches also known as the suicide headache. Women that get them say there worse than child birth. So I can officially tell women not only do I know what it feels like but I gave birth out of my eye… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache

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    • cosmic dogma
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 10:00pm

      You are a re re.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:04am

      John, I get cluster headaches too. They are worse than my FIRST child, who took an hour and a half of labor, and an hour and a half of pushing. They were NOT worse than my second child, which put me in 16 hours of labor, and almost had to be taken ceasarian. I thought he grabbed my ovary on the way out to stop from entering this world. He had the cord wrapped around his neck but there was enough slack to deliver…I guess it pulled and I’m lucky to be here. Every child is different.

      My grandma, who only had my dad, said her reason was that she told grandpa she’d have the first one, and he could have the second. Dad was born in 1932, and almost in the toilet at home because she thought she had gas.

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  • paulsfam4
    Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:41am

    And we the husband pay for it!! the whole marriage.and by the way I had some bowel movements that came close if not surpassed it.

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  • paulsfam4
    Posted on January 20, 2013 at 8:37am

    my wife caused me more pain than that!

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  • piper60
    Posted on January 20, 2013 at 7:28am

    I’ve heard that the europeans do some strange things for entertainment, but endangering your intestines is pretty stupid. I’ll bet, if they work out, that they’ll remember this day every time they do.

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  • Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
    Posted on January 20, 2013 at 3:03am

    It can’t be any worse than passing a kidney stone or nobody would ever have willingly done it more than once.

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    • spikebu
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 4:56am

      We are supplied with a forget spell. We don’t remember the pain until we face it again. Something about holding that beautiful baby, erases all the prior pain.

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    • spikebu
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 5:06am

      I would like to see a few men pass a 9 pound kidney stone. Obama, and Reid would be top of the list.

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    • dissent
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 11:21am

      My wife has had our 2 children at home the natural way. She chuckles at women who complain how bad it hurts and refers to them as wimps (or a vulgar synonym). According to her, the pain isn’t really as bad as women make it out to be. She says severe traumatic injuries, like a patellar dislocation, are far more painful, as is passing a kidney stone. Her theory is women are exaggerating to get sympathy and attention from their men. Personally, I have to laugh hysterically when I see some woman on TV screaming hysterically and rolling around, my wife just went on about her day while she was in labor….then again, us country folk are probably just built tougher than the rest of the entitled pansies in this country.

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    • Rbell2915
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 2:21pm

      I dislocated my patella (knee) playing football after the eighth grade. So much pain. The ambulance has to come to take me. Didn’t even cry though XD

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    • Angel_light
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 4:19pm

      dissent- I can tell you right now that child birth is different for every woman. There is no way that every woman experiences it the same. I’ve learned from several women I’ve met in my life about their experiences and they were all different. One had a baby within minutes of arriving at the hospital and said she didn’t feel anything; another was in labor for hours before ready for delivery. It greatly varies.

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    • Granny58
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 5:07pm

      Well, Dissent, certainly your wife is entitled to her opinion, though it is flawed. Everybody has a different childbirth experience and different level of pain tolerance. I’m glad for her that hers was easy. Let me say, mine was not.

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    • 2gether
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:22pm

      It is physiologically impossible to remember pain. The brain cannot do it. Try and remember the worst pain you ever had, it is impossible to recall it. You can say “that was the worst pain I have ever had” or “I can’t believe how bad it was” but you cannot remember the exact sensations.
      Someone stomped on my lower leg when I was playing softball in college and factured both the tibia and fibula in several places, I then lifted my leg up and it flopped over and cracked some more. I remember being in agony but I cannot recall the pain itself. It is a defense mechanism…thank, God.

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    • m.teresa.d
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:27pm

      to dissent:
      like others have said, not all women are the same, nor are all men the same (if they were the same EVERY man would pass through Navy SEALs training wouldn’t they?)
      i knew a maternaty nurse who spoke of a woman who felt little to no pain while in labor..in awe. said every nurse in the hospital tried to see her for themselves before delivery. and even the delivery doctor was amazed at her.
      think about it, you have something about the size of a bowling ball trying to fit thru something YOUR (words censored) into, yeah, it’s going to hurt.
      more than enough said.

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    • Common Sense Sally
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:29pm

      My friend, who had two girls without any type of anesthetic (aside from Tylenol), had a kidney stone and said it was much, MUCH worse pain-wise!

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  • Camptown Races
    Posted on January 20, 2013 at 1:10am

    Oh Brother….Any American FATHER who’s ever gone through the American divorce court system can tell these two Euro pansies….. Pain… SHMAIN!!!

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  • Jake Dog2
    Posted on January 20, 2013 at 1:04am

    When did the Blaze start taking crap articles fromThe Huffington Post.
    .

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  • GeeWhiz
    Posted on January 20, 2013 at 12:56am

    Make it a day and a half, give em pitocin to really crank those contractions, no pain meds and push out a toaster and we’ll talk.

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  • Kupo
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 11:41pm

    Women’s bodies are specifically designed to deal with the stresses of labor and are pumped full of hormones so it isn’t a very fair “test”. Half of the population has been going through this process for thousands and thousands of years so I don’t see what the big deal is.

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    • aragona
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 12:14am

      Yeah? that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt like He!! to have a baby. It does regardless of whether or bodies are “designed” to have kids or not. Believe me, I know. those “hormones” make poor pain killers.

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    • GeeWhiz
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 1:14am

      Son, you don’t have a clue and this is insulting. We’re built to have babies, but the thing that makes us intelligent, the size of our brains, is the reason why childbirth is pretty damn harsh on human women. That brain is encased in a skull, and it has to fit through the opening in our pelvis. In order for it to be painless like like some other mammals, our pelvis would have to be so large that **** sapiens wouldn’t be able to walk upright. In other words, a skull that is too large, has to pass through our parts.Sometimes taking out organs along the way.

      Hormones have nothing to do with dealing with it unless you’re talking after the fact. I’m a pretty wordy woman and I don’t have words fit to describe what childbirth is like to someone who has never experienced it.

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    • Advection
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 2:04am

      If they didnt want to feel labor pains, they shouldn’t have eaten the apple!

      No, but seriously…Some studies suggest that females sctually feel pain more intensly than males.

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    • spikebu
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 5:33am

      @Gee…I am also very wordy. You are right. There are no words to describe that pain. I think, partly, because it’s welcomed as an end to the long months of discomfort, and partly as “let’s get it done”!

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    • Melika
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 7:16am

      Why do men consistently try to tell us about how we feel in our bodies? I really get insulted when some moron tries to tell me what I should and shouldn’t feel based on his own lack of experience.

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  • Chuck Stein
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 11:38pm

    Perspective of the purpose of the pain can make all the difference (so I’ve heard)

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 11:15pm

    don’t wear a Carhartt cap if you can’t take any pain a WOMAN can handle, kid.

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  • marine249
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 10:58pm

    try pulling your upper lip over your head.

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  • Acena
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 10:45pm

    Nice of them to give it a try ,with muscular contractions, but to get the full effect you need your internal organs filled with a bowling ball you eject .

    3MONKEYSMOMMA
    Good lord woman, i think i just had a sympathy labor pain for you.

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  • Cesium
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 10:36pm

    Two Europeans speaking hebrew? They must be from the schtetl… Who wrote this title?

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    • Cesium
      Posted on January 19, 2013 at 10:40pm

      Correction, I apologize. Definitely not hebrew. I didn’t listen long enough or read beginning of article. See what happens?

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  • Heb4Seven
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 10:27pm

    I wonder If some actual women who’ve had a baby, tried this on themselves to make sure that it was, in fact, comparable….OR were they just having ‘fun’ tormenting those guys…:)

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 9:37pm

    I have a high pain threshold and am not afraid of pain but I don’t go around looking for it either. No-pain is a good feeling too.

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  • soybomb315_II
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 9:00pm

    what is all this junk on theblaze these days???

    There is very important things going on in this country. And good things too. Here is one, we need to get active at the local and state level…..
    http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/14273-states-aim-to-nullify-obama-gun-control

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:55pm

    Try a cluster headache on for size. Even women who have experienced childbirth will testify it is more painful. Europeans are just the frontrunner in the sissification of society. Suck it up buttercup, life doesn’t get easier.

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    • Quiata
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 10:20am

      I was just thinking along the same lines…the story headline should be “…How long do you think two giggling Euro-dudes can withstand severe abdominal cramps?”

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    • Schteveo
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 5:27pm

      Any guy thinks he can ‘hang’ with hat women go through to give birth needs these stimulators moved up to their head to jump start their brains. I saw what my wife went through, NO THANKS!!!

      And here’s a question, WHY would you want to do that? Other than the obvious, they got tons of FREE worldwide publicity for themselves.

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:52pm

    A graze in the grass.
    Try a milkshake from Centerville when the help is feeling under the weather.

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  • dosdelgados
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:46pm

    My husband watched it and said, “Oh, come on…it doesn’t hurt that bad, does it?” (He was deployed during our kids’ births.). I told him he needs to participate in this simulation if we ever have another one. Two hours? I wish I had a two hour labor!

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on January 19, 2013 at 9:03pm

      35 and one half hours for my first child!

      …and that wasn’t NEARLY as bad as the second one that was 10 lbs 4 oz and delivered vaginally WITH NO MEDS (not my choice!)

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    • DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
      Posted on January 19, 2013 at 11:13pm

      @3monkeys
      24 hours & breech birth I’d say bring it on. My husband would have called planned parenthood after the first hour.

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    • okaaay
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 12:39am

      DOSDELGADOS, your husband deserves a slap upside the head, or two… or fifty!
      I had four without meds, AND pitocin to increase contractions, because I don’t go anywhere.
      Forty hours of this and they wimp out at two?

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  • Eastinfection
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:42pm

    “it’s not a tumor!”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AecrVzs_Bi8

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:29pm

    Yeeeeeeah… my first thought is: apples and oranges. Comparing the pain experienced by these dudes from electrifying their abs to the actual pain experienced by a woman in labor? Sorry – nice stunt, but how you could begin to quantify and compare the two things is just silly.

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    • aragona
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 12:18am

      I agree. The electrodes couldn’t hurt as bad as actual labor which really affects the entire body (or at least my entire body). I remember trying to curl up in the fetal position, hoped to die, while wishing everyone would just go away and leave me to it. LOL

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  • AmericanStrega
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:23pm

    I wonder if they pooped their pants.

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  • USAOneNationUnderGod
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:22pm

    Natural/unmediated childbirth is completely possible and enjoyable with the right preparation and a low-risk pregnancy. I encourage all women to look into it. It’s best for mama and baby if there are no complications. I also highly recommend interviewing and hiring a doula for first-time mamas. All the best!

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    • Hotconchick
      Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:48pm

      USA- right on sister!! I had my two natural and it really was beautiful and enjoyable- admittedly the second one was nicer. I too would highly recommend it for strong women with healthy pregnancies.
      There is no pain like it but there is also nothing like seeing your baby for the first time- the pain is an after thought.

      Childbirth is impossible to simulate with electrodes though. Trying some kidney stones on for size- I hear those could be as painful.

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    • USAMama
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 2:05am

      Each situation is different and whatever you choose it’s wise to do it in a hospital. My experience, my pregnancy was perfect, no complications whatsoever. My son was 9 lbs 3 oz and I was “failing to progress”. They tried everything to induce labor but it wouldn’t happen. He went into distress and his heart rate plummeted. He had a bowel movement in the womb which is extremely dangerous because its toxic if they swallow it. My doc had to rush me in for an emergency C-Section. I had had an epidural but that was it and anyone who knows will tell you it helps the contractions but not adequate for major surgery. They were in such a hurry they couldn’t give me anything else and I felt EVERYTHING!!! I screamed in pain, thought I was dying. I felt every cut and tug as they pulled him out. They didnt even have time to put up the blue curtain. My husband, who is an avid hunter and who has gutted many deer, won’t talk about what he saw & heard that day. Most painful experience of my life. My doctor later told me I simply could not have given birth to him naturally. If it were 50 yrs ago before c-sections neither one of us would have survived. I would have died in childbirth.

      Having said that, I have had 2 more babies, both planned c-section with a spinal block. Hardly felt a thing, much much much better!! I’m not against natural I just think people should be prepared if something goes wrong. With today’s medical knowledge and technology it would be foolish not to.

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    • Hotconchick
      Posted on January 20, 2013 at 11:29am

      Good point. I was in the hospital both times just in case- thankfully all was well. I forgot to add that in my post.

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  • TotallyNotATroll
    Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:12pm

    Better than what I was expecting, I was thinking they would attempt to stick something huge up an orifice making it stretch out to over 10cm…..

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