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Meanings of childbed in English
Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child.
The period beginning immediately after the birth of a child and extending for about six weeks in which the mother recovers from pregnancy and birth.
Usage of childbed in English
1
But it's certain he left his wife while she was in childbed.
2
This is my fourth childbed and at least I know what to expect.
3
Special treatment of the ghosts of women who died in childbed.
4
She died at sea in childbed, but brought forth a maid-child called Marina.
5
But I fear childbed fever has robbed me of any vestige of beauty.
6
That spring, mother went to her childbed and did not rise from it.
7
His first wife died in childbed, giving him a stillborn daughter.
8
Or, if you go back far enough, how to prevent infection or childbed fever!
9
About this time his first wife died in childbed, having left him three daughters.
10
Their women never perish in childbed, owing, no doubt, to their never wearing stays.
11
I can't leave you here, not alone with the children, to face another childbed.'
12
Pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed.
13
I went into the danger of childbed with my sister marked out for my widower.
14
Died in childbed a year later, me being at that time on my first voyage.
15
Her own grandmother Elizabeth of York, and her stepmother Jane Seymour-bothhad perished in childbed.
16
His mother died of childbed fever in 1913, when he was in his third year.
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