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

Though doctors can cure a growing list of bacterial diseases�pneumonia, meningitis, streptococcic infections, erysipelas, childbed fever, gonorrhea, etc.�with sulfanilamide and other sulfa compounds, they have little biochemical understanding of how the drugs work.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline