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

There are gaudy family scenes�the best one between an unhappy, runaway Charlotte and her unhappier, cast-aside mother�preceding Charlotte's death in childbed at 21.

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