childbirth

Becoming a mother can be difficult under any circumstances, but for some women, everyday obstacles can make getting medical care after childbirth especially challenging.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

The family of a first-time mum who died in childbirth say her newborn son is the "light" that's keeping them going through their grief.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Aina said that American Black women die in childbirth at three times the rate for white women, and 87% of these deaths were preventable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Rhoda is less interested in Max’s disloyalty to Leonie than in the tales of Ana’s philandering, profligate father, a Maltese artist who raised her after her Italian mother died during childbirth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

So Charles, who truly hated to see Emma go through the pain of childbirth, had arranged for some to be on hand for the doctor to use when he arrived.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

Too Short Intervals Between Children.—Too short an interval between childbirths would also seem to be an infringement on the rights of the child as well as of the mother.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer