childbed
Example Sentences
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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
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
