Cramping: enema vs. labor

Just finished cramping from sitting on my 6l JBL-bag when the thought came on: is there a difference in cramps from an enema and from labor? Can I even compare those two things?

Just guessing here as a male, but no. I have heard women liken labor to shitting a watermelon.

What I meant was not the actual birth but the cramps prior to birth :-)

I can't imagine even a large enema of dissolved Dulcolax, soap and Epsom salts, giving cramps anything near those of a muscular uterus trying to expel a baby. They can't even be in the same league. You know the old saying, "If it were up to men to deliver the baby, society would cease to exist". I've watched 2 wives in the labor and delivery room and they are exhausted for a couple days. I'll bet in the old days, when mothers in labor got an SSE and a labor contraction hit, their eyes would pop out of their heads. I've read opinions that stated that men physically couldn't tolerate the pain of labor--and I believe it.

We woman are tough!!

There's a video of two guys hooked up to Hospital Grade "Electro-Stim" to purportedly simulate average labor contractions.

And - stuck in what's left of my mind was a woman's comment that enemas used to STIMULATE her labor felt more like SIMULATED labor. I'd been in a bit of an emotional up&down of that as labor/birth fantasies have been a deeply embedded kink of mine a long time now.

Suffice to say that yeah- I've done the Soap&Ducolax enemas bit several times on a very constipated bowel wondering if the hurts so good was anywhere near periods or labor. Birth itself? ah, I used to use various inflatable objects as retention aids for aforementioned soapy ducolax with rather indelible memories of asking myself almost if not even really aloud:

Why am I doing this to myself knowing how much it hurt the last time, and then answering myself with" Well it made me come no hands needed WHEE!!!!!

Now- the hurts like death expelling a mostly still full gutload of crampy stuff can be bittersweet. Then again? Ah well- I did not have much else to do tonight.

I was not out to be any kind of hero during the birthing process itself, after all I had carried a set of twins to full term,which is heroic enough for me, and for my husband, and I will always have two there to parent, so, even if my husband continues to be the kind of father he is starting out as, and I get much help at all form either of our Dad, or from my husband's Mom, I will still get plenty of chances to be a hero, so I wanted the delivery to be as smooth as it could be and it mostly was, WITH AN EPIDURAL!!

In terms of actual PAIN, I would say birthing is worse, but in terms of the amount of effort it takes on your part to get through it, I'd say it's about the same.