A married couple went to the hospital to have their baby delivered.
Upon their arrival, the doctor said he had invented a new machine
that would transfer a portion of the mother’s labor pain to the
FATHER.
He asked if they were willing to try it out. They were both very
much in favor of it. The doctor set the pain transfer to 10% for
starters, explaining that even 10% was probably more pain than
the father had ever experienced before. But as the labor progressed,
the husband felt fine and asked the doctor to go ahead and kick
it up a notch. The doctor then adjusted the machine to 20% pain
transfer. The husband was still feeling fine.
The doctor checked the husband’s blood pressure and was amazed at
how well he was doing. At this point they decided to try for 50%.
The husband continued to feel quite well. Since the pain transfer
was obviously helping out the wife considerably, the husband
encouraged the doctor to transfer ALL the pain to him. The wife
delivered a healthy baby with virtually no pain. She and her husband
were ecstatic. When they got home, the mailman was dead on the porch!