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childbirth

[chahyld-burth] / ˈtʃaɪldˌbɜrθ /


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Among low-income pregnant individuals, the approach was linked to better postpartum health care and stronger connections to primary care that continued well beyond childbirth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Earlier this year, Kawata, who is mayor of Yawata City in Kyoto prefecture, was plunged into a national debate about whether elected officials should take time off for childbirth.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Sarah Anderson’s “darkly comic debut,” Joanne Kaufman writes, offers “matter-of-fact hilarity” as it peers into a future in which childbirth is one more workplace benefit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The rate of third or fourth degree vaginal tears during childbirth has risen by 29% in the last five years, according to the analysis.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“We were comparing sensations. I was going to suggest that she had never experienced childbirth ” “You’re a fool,” Gage said.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

This wouldn’t affect childbirths if the propensity to get married had remained constant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

Couples can now have up to three children, and CNN reported that childbirths from unmarried parents will soon be registered with health care officials.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

The only example I could think of was Sarah Hall’s gorgeous “The Wolf Border,” in which the main character, who works to reintroduce wolves to nature, has the least natural of all childbirths.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2018

Indeed, not every baby has a mother: before modern medicine, about one in 100 childbirths killed the mother.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2017

I remarked particularly the broad shoulders and athletic arms of the woman, whose many childbirths had left no traces upon her comeliness.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend


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