Questions for God, Part 1

I have a whole list of questions I'm going to ask God when I die about things that I just don't get. Most involve my desire to actually be able to interpret the Bible in a literal fashion. I get stuck sometimes. My Dad is a minister, so I've been well schooled in the Bible and think about stuff like this more than is probably healthy. I'll share one with you today.

So... God creates Adam and Eve, they are without sin, then there's the whole tree/apple thing and sin enters the world. Eve's "punishment" for her conniving part in this whole activity is that she will have pain in childbirth.

Here's where my confusion comes in. Eve was already made at this point, correct? She had ovaries, and a uterus, and a vagina. I will assume that God did not at this point make babies a lot BIGGER or her vagina a lot SMALLER. So how in the heck was it that childbirth was NOT going to be painful before this whole tree/apple episode? Were we going to be like kangaroos and get the babies out very tiny and keep them in some sort of pouch till they got bigger? Or did he have some other initial design on how babies were going to get out of another person?

Or even worse, did he know (in his omniscience) that Adam and Eve were going to screw up the whole Garden of Eden thing before they had kids, so he just made her that way to begin with, knowing it was coming. If that's the case, I start to have real concerns about the whole concept of free will.

So are you, my ever-faithful blog readers, starting to worry about how my brain works yet? =)