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UK
/tʃˈaɪldbɛd/
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NOUN
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concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
she was in labor for six hours
How To Use childbed In A Sentence
- Is there any real evidence that women in childbed were more prone to the nightmare, though?
- He worries for his sister, now the last member of his immediate family left in France, and is forever urging her to visit, although having just risen from childbed, she cannot. Exit the Actress
- To such as lie in childbed ob suppressam purgationem; but to nuns and more ancient maids, and some barren women for the causes abovesaid, 'tis more familiar, crebrius his quam reliquis accidit, inquit Rodericus, the rest are not altogether excluded. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Charlotte in childbed; it has turned to a royal daughter whose death meets no divine design, only "inscrutable decrees. Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans's Reading of Byron
- Semmelweis noticed that at the doctor-staffed clinic, about 10% of the women died of something called childbed fever. Archive 2010-03-01
- To these belong Bright's disease, which very often turns into pulmonary consumption, greensickness or chlorosis, anaemia, continued febrile diseases, severe chronic suppuration, chronic catarrh of the stomach, frequent pregnancies, childbed diseases. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated
- When Francesca was in childbed after Rosemary and Arthur were born, she was so ill as to never be quite sure of what was going on around her.
- For many, service to Christ constituted the only creditable alternative to matrimony and childbed.
- Childbirth fever (This is also called childbed fever, postpartum infection, or puerperal infection.) Chapter 33
- The finest hospitals lost one out of six young mothers to the scourge of ‘childbed fever.’