childbed
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At the top of the episode, an uncomfortably pregnant Queen Aemma foreshadows her fate: “The childbed is our battlefield,” she tells her daughter, Princess Rhaenyra.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
“The childbed is our battlefield,” she said, and we saw how that turned out.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
Faced with a doctor-led maternity ward in which maternal deaths from the dreaded childbed fever were significantly higher than in the midwife-run clinic there, he racked his brain for clues as to why.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2020
It damned the royal son just born to Queen Mary and arrogant, Roman Catholic King James II as a changeling, slipped into the royal childbed in a warming pan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lady Minisa Tully had died in childbed, trying to give Lord Hoster a second son.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
