Thus, we can answer our initial question with two statements. God never cursed women. And labor pain is not God's punishment on women. That alone may powerfully affect our beliefs about childbirth. It was labor, and any pain involved is related to the physiological aspect of bodily labor.
Most women experience pain in labor.
Therefore are my loins filled with pain, pangs have taken hold of me as the pangs of a woman in travail. The Hebrew word found in these passages makes no mention of pain. The word travail is an imprecise translation. The next common thread we notice in these verses is the suggestion of pain, pangs or anguish. The subject is overwhelmed and mastered by fear, sorrow, pangs or anguish.