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I couldn't help sharing this story since I came across it today morning, so here goes!
Apparently, if you are concerned about the pain your partner has to endure during childbirth, then be there, and hold her hands, which will act like an analgesic and lower her pain.
This is the result of a study done by researchers who discovered that
when an empathetic partner holds the hand of a woman in pain, their heart and respiratory rates sync and her pain dissipates.
So now you know that the warm fuzzy feeling you get when you are with the one you love, has more effects on both of you than you had previously thought. And Pavel Goldstein, the lead researcher said:
It could be that touch is a tool for communicating empathy, resulting in an analgesic, or pain-killing, effect
Besides the pain of childbirth, this could work in other circumstances as well, but for more information on this, please check out the link below.