“the pains of childbirth”?
We must have the pains of childbirth until a dying soul believe in Jesus Christ and Christ is formed in him/her (Gal. 4:19).
Just as there are the pains of childbirth in witnessing one soul, there is the pains of self denying and bearing our own cross
until Christ is formed in him/her.
(Mt. 16:24; Mk. 8:34; Lk. 9:23)