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childbirth

[chahyld-burth] / ˈtʃaɪldˌbɜrθ /


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By building those skills over the first year after childbirth, the team hoped patients would eventually feel confident arranging appointments, seeking primary care, and navigating the healthcare system without additional assistance.

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

But, alas, she did not live through childbirth.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

It may be no accident that the recent plunge in childbirths began in 2008, during the Great Recession, or that it continued through the slow recovery, the pandemic and political disruptions.

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

Two difficult childbirths, along with Dennis’s spending all day at the gym with his clients, resulted in a drop-off of physical activity.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2020

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

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2017

Were the resurrections as common as childbirths nobody would consider them violations of the laws of nature.

From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson


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