Lastly also, it may arise from abortion or from difficult childbirth.

Tami D. Garcia's path to motherhood was comparable to a difficult childbirth, a labor of love and will.

And it may be that difficult childbirth is a very recent phenomenon, perhaps due to improved nutrition in affluent societies.

It was like a mother's amnesia after a difficult childbirth, and her marvelous new abilities far overshadowed the discomfort she had endured.

Some women have such a difficult childbirth with one or more, another child may kill them and leave their living children without a mother.

That is one of the findings of a draft report into the use of symphysiotomy, a procedure aimed at widening the pelvis during difficult childbirth.