Is childbirth as painful for animals as it is for humans?

Virtually all human mothers experience pain in childbirth, and delivery takes much longer than in other mammals. For example, in ... Thus, in comparison to other animals born one at a time, human babies are born at an earlier developmental stage, before their bodies have developed enough to walk around. read more

Human babies have particularly large heads which makes childbirth painful, however birth associated complications occur in both animals and humans alike. More attention is given when it is a woman and/or her child that dies rather than when birthing related fatalities occur in animals. read more

As long as the animal is having no complications, then no, birth is not as painful a process for animals, as it is for humans. Generally speaking animals are having a much smaller baby, in terms of relative size. A 130 pound human mother will give birth to a 7 pound infant A 200 pound gorilla mother will give birth to a 4 pound infant (and that is a completely full term, full sized gorilla infant). read more

Despite what would seem evolutionarily unfavorable, one in 1,000 human mothers have a baby whose head is too big to fit through the birth canal, which necessitates a cesarean section, if medical care is available. Virtually all human mothers experience pain in childbirth, and delivery takes much longer than in other mammals. read more