I don't think this is necessarily about childbirth but definitely about birth in some way. He's asking what does it mean to come alive - truly, for the first time? not necessarily as a baby but a spiritual birth? An awakening by some sort of epiphanic revelation, possibly an awakening that forces some sort of negative consequence - the mark of cain, pain, madness.
I don't think this is necessarily about childbirth but definitely about birth in some way. He's asking what does it mean to come alive - truly, for the first time? not necessarily as a baby but a spiritual birth? An awakening by some sort of epiphanic revelation, possibly an awakening that forces some sort of negative consequence - the mark of cain, pain, madness.