labour pains

NOUN
  1. a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth
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How To Use labour pains In A Sentence

  • The birth itself drags on for two nights. During thefirst night labour pains come on the cow elephant and the calf goes to itsfinal birth position.
  • Serena felt the first pangs of labour pains on New Year's Eve and made her way to Wexford hospital.
  • Chinamen (cited by Mr Candidate Mulligan) in consequence of defective reunion of the maxillary knobs along the medial line so that (as he said) one ear could hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent upon the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in the case of females impregnated by delinquent rape, that distressing manner of delivery called by the Brandenburghers STURZGEBURT, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents — in a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations. Ulysses
  • Paul knew he had to labour like a woman weary after hours of labour pains to effect new life in people: ‘I travail again in birth.’
  • Three miles into the journey she was seized with labour pains.
  • She'll be helping more couples deal with parenthood, including a tricky homebirth that causes more than just labour pains. The Sun
  • The birth itself drags on for two nights. During thefirst night labour pains come on the cow elephant and the calf goes to itsfinal birth position.
  • She'll be helping more couples deal with parenthood, including a tricky homebirth that causes more than just labour pains. The Sun
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