Men feeling labor pains

A crazy stunt brought new meaning to "feel your pain."

Two Dutch TV hosts hooked themselves up to a machine that creates the sensation of child labor.

Up until this point only women knew the agony of childbirth but the stunt hooked the men up to a machine with electrodes on their abdomen to simulate labor pains.

The machine simulated what real "contractions" would feel like. The cramping the men felt got stronger longer and closer together but some are skeptical of the comparison.

"You can think of this as a very strong charlie horse.  Is it as painful as labor?  My opinion
is that it isn't," said Doctor Jennifer Ashton, ABC News Senior Medical Editor.

And get this, the average labor lasts between 12 and 14 hours. Those men only lasted for two hours.

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