Charis

I wonder if this is some parallel preaching by Paul?

Gal 4: 19 ¶ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21 ¶ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
1 ¶ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

I can honestly say that going through “circumcision of the heart” is far more painful than any physical childbirth (and I think I qualify as an authoritative on that issue- having born 8 full term). So, perhaps, the curse on Eve of “pain in conception” applies to ALL women- single, married, childless- clarified by 1Tim 2:14-15. “Pain in conception” can be the emotional pain of undergoing heart circumcision, mind/nature renewal, having the image of God restored, having Christ formed in me.

Col 3:10 and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator .