Why is Childbirth So Hard – and Getting Even Harder?

“Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story.”  Read More

The Urantia Book simplifies this issue of painful childbirth  even more. Painful childbirth seems to be the result of early race-mixing with the Nodites—descendents of the prince’s staff who followed him into rebellion—and the Adamites. The Adamites intermarried with the Nodites, degrading the purity of their lineage. These early human beings were not so sensitive to pain nor so reactive to unpleasant situations as were many of the later evolving mortals. Childbirth was not a painful or distressing ordeal to Fonta and her immediate progeny. 63:4.2 (713.8)  

Eve did not suffer pain in childbirth; neither did the early evolutionary races. Only the mixed races produced by the union of evolutionary man with the Nodites and later with the Adamites suffered the severe pangs of childbirth. Read More