childbed

Example Sentences

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“The childbed is our battlefield,” the late Queen Aemma noted in the premiere, and “Dragon” remains determined to show as well as tell us this fact.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022

At the top of the episode, an uncomfortably pregnant Queen Aemma foreshadows her fate: “The childbed is our battlefield,” she tells her daughter, Princess Rhaenyra.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2022

Faced with a doctor-led maternity ward in which maternal deaths from the dreaded childbed fever were significantly higher than in the midwife-run clinic there, he racked his brain for clues as to why.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2020

Plagues frequently carried off whole populations, and as headstones in the old cemeteries testify, hardly an 18th century family was exempt from the fatal fevers of childbed and youth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, it is sickening; reminds me of lying in childbed.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline