Male reporter to experience pain of ‘childbirth’ for real

As European vacations go, this one is pretty far removed from the sun lounger and beach towel. Newstalk’s Henry McKean is going to Amsterdam to personally “experience” childbirth.

The intrepid reporter is being dispatched to the Dutch capital and The Birth Hotel at Geboorte Centrum, where he will be attached to electrodes that will simulate childbirth, or as staff there put it, “the full labour experience”.

Any man lucky enough to have been present at the birth of his children will come away with two resounding thoughts: a newfound and utterly elevated respect for all of womankind, and a sigh of relief that he didn’t have to do any of the work.