maternal
Example Sentences
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The organization has said that planned home births are associated with fewer maternal interventions, like labor induction or cesareans, than planned hospital birth—a major talking point among women who opt out of hospitalized birth.
Despite generous maternal leave and social programs for families, the agency says the population could shrink to 30 million people by 2060 from around 38 million now.
From Barron's
John-Calum Macleod, or “Cal,” has returned to the cramped, emotionally suffocating family home he left behind, now shared with his father and maternal grandmother.
From Los Angeles Times
Ratner was raised in Miami Beach by his mother and maternal grandparents, Jews who left Cuba after the revolution.
Storyteller Sakae Manning was familiar with Altadena before she and her husband moved there 35 years ago — his family had history in west Altadena and his maternal grandmother had lived there for a while.
From Los Angeles Times
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