Impurity / Tumah At Birth for the Mother

All tumor is connected to death. In the case of a dead body, that's obvious. A seinal emission is also a potential death because it could have become a life. A dead animal has a a level of tumor. But the question becomes, in what way would child birth be connected to death? Child birth is the opposite. Child birth is bringing new life. Why would there be tuma that's connected with the birth of a child? So one answer might be that child birth is connected to death in the sense that every child birth we don't like to think about it this way is a brush with death because child birth is a very dangerous condition. We violate Shabbat to take a woman to the hospital and the like. So its connection to death is the risk of death that can exist in a child birth. But first offers another explanation which is really quite striking. He says every child birth is the death of the life that was within the person's body. It's a strange way of looking at it. There was a life in the woman's body. That life no longer exists. It exists as a separate. So therefore child birth is considered to be the death of a life within. Now in that sense the loss of life is double in the case of a woman because uh a man or a boy uh is born and all you have is the boy one person. With a girl birth contains all of the egg that she will need for her whole life. So therefore a girl represents not only her life but all of the lives that can come out of her. And therefore that's signified by doubling the contact with with