child-bearing
Example Sentences
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Officials said Friday they would promote policies to help with the cost of child-bearing and elderly care.
From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025
Proposals include giving mothers of big families "medals" for child-bearing or even paying new moms a $5,000 baby bonus.
From Salon • May 7, 2025
While the number of births fell to a record low last year, the number of women of child-bearing age was at its highest ever at 12 million.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2024
Nearly 8 in 10 women develop fibroids, noncancerous tumors that develop in the uterus during child-bearing years.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023
His spirit hung swaying in his loose nerves, breathed upon by soft airs; for he was already in that dissolving nervous ecstasy of the fainting, the child-bearing, the exhausted by bleeding, the dying.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
