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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

Sarah Anderson’s “darkly comic debut,” Joanne Kaufman writes, offers “matter-of-fact hilarity” as it peers into a future in which childbirth is one more workplace benefit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The defence argues that Clancy was experiencing postpartum psychosis, a severe mental health condition that can develop after childbirth, and that she should therefore not be held criminally responsible for the killings.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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

Her belly is still swollen from childbirth and her hair disheveled and her face weary without makeup.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

This wouldn’t affect childbirths if the propensity to get married had remained constant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

Three childbirths later, she was diagnosed with near-fatal renal complications.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2018

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

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2017

But even if it were true, the amount of injury that can be done by contraceptives would be like a drop of water in comparison with the injuries resulting from excessive pregnancies and childbirths.

From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by William J. Robinson


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