childbed

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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

“The childbed is our battlefield,” she said, and we saw how that turned out.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 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

His circulars were a pathetic attempt to make the world understand the source of childbed fever before madness destroyed him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lady Minisa Tully had died in childbed, trying to give Lord Hoster a second son.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin