childbed

Example Sentences

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“The childbed is our battlefield,” the late Queen Aemma noted in the premiere, and “Dragon” remains determined to show as well as tell us this fact.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 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