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Childbed

noun

Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child. Synonyms: confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail.

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... and carried water for his bath. Joern Uhl allowed it. For he was proud to have such a strong wife, "not so affected as the others." It led however to her death. Somehow she must have become infected, for soon after a severe childbed fever ...

— Sleep Walking and Moon Walking - A Medico-Literary Study • Isidor Isaak Sadger

... forgot amongst themselves." If a man dies by violence, they lay him out with his hat and shoes on, as if to give him the appearance of a wayfarer, and "symbolize one surprised in the great journey of life." A woman dying in childbed is dressed for the grave in her bridal ornaments. Mr. Rose is very scornful of the notion that these people are Cimbri, and holds that it is "more consonant to all the evidence of history to say, that ...

— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells

... perform thy just command, I here confess myself the king of Tyre; Who, frighted from my country, did wed At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa. At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth A maid-child call'd Marina; who, O goddess, Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus Was nursed with Cleon; who at fourteen years He sought to murder: but her better stars Brought her to Mytilene; 'gainst whose shore Riding, her fortunes ...

— Pericles Prince of Tyre • William Shakespeare [Clark edition]

Words linked to "Childbed" : giving birth, asynclitism, parturition, obliquity, premature labour, effacement, gestation, birth, maternity, confinement, birthing, parturiency, pregnancy, uterine contraction, premature labor