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Yet at time of > giving birth, a mother feels up to 57 del (units) of pain. This is similar > to 20 bones getting fractured at a time. The mathematics don\'t make sense to begin with: if human bodies can only bear 45 \"del\" and every birth causes \"57\" del of pain it would mean mothers are not human. My mom does not agree, and most mothers probably won\'t subscribe to this view either. Also, there is no unit of measurement called the \"del\". The \"dol\" was briefly used around 1950 by a trio of researchers (James D. Hardy, Harold G. Wolff and Helen Goodell ) to measure pain, you can read a Time story from 1956 about it here. But their scale only went from 1 to 10. Here\'s a typical example of the nonsense claim: ![\\"del.jpg\\"](\\" thumb-900x900-3060755.jpg\\") While it is probably being shared and liked so often to honor the pain and love of mothers everywhere, the claim itself is complete nonsense. > ![\\"](\\"\\"/) > > Maarten Schenk is the co-founder and COO/CTO of Lead Stories and an expert > on fake news and hoax websites. 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Mothers feel 57 del of pain during childbirth and a human body can only bear 45 del