As a woman who had a full term stillbirth, I must say I feel strongly that this song is about a baby dying either directly before or after birth. The part about "tainted blood still the same" makes me wonder if that isn't a referral to MTHFR disorder, which is a blood clotting disorder that commonly leads to stillbirth. This is often undetected (bastard doctors?) until an actual perinatal death, and then uncovered during the autopsy/blood/genetic testing afterwards. Many women who have this get treatment (like blood thinners) so they can have successful pregnancies later. It doesn't even have to be stillbirth, it could be complications from something like MTHFR that lead to death. Could also be a placental abruption or some other complication that resulted in a baby dying. Whatever the case, I'm positive this is it.
Even if the grief process isn't considered a true mental illness (although many women who lose a baby suffer from depression afterwards, or postpartum specific depression, anxiety, which are all genuine diagnosed mental illnesses) from someone who is living it (5 months last week), it makes me feel crazier than anything else in my life ever has.
As a woman who had a full term stillbirth, I must say I feel strongly that this song is about a baby dying either directly before or after birth. The part about "tainted blood still the same" makes me wonder if that isn't a referral to MTHFR disorder, which is a blood clotting disorder that commonly leads to stillbirth. This is often undetected (bastard doctors?) until an actual perinatal death, and then uncovered during the autopsy/blood/genetic testing afterwards. Many women who have this get treatment (like blood thinners) so they can have successful pregnancies later. It doesn't even have to be stillbirth, it could be complications from something like MTHFR that lead to death. Could also be a placental abruption or some other complication that resulted in a baby dying. Whatever the case, I'm positive this is it.
Even if the grief process isn't considered a true mental illness (although many women who lose a baby suffer from depression afterwards, or postpartum specific depression, anxiety, which are all genuine diagnosed mental illnesses) from someone who is living it (5 months last week), it makes me feel crazier than anything else in my life ever has.