childbed
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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
As director of obstetrics in the miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, it is sickening; reminds me of lying in childbed.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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