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Childbed  n.  The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.





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"Childbed" Quotes from Famous Books



... heaven. Many of the saint's friends were put to the most exquisite tortures on this account, but no discovery could be made. The Isaurians plundered Asia, and the Huns several other provinces. Eudoxia ended her life and crimes in childbed on the 6th of October following, five days after a furious hail-storm had made a dreadful havoc in the city. The emperor wrote to St. Nilus, to recommend himself and his empire to his prayers. ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler


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


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