Synonyms for childbed

Grammar : Noun

Spell : chahyld-bed

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃaɪldˌbɛd

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Définition of childbed

Origin : also child-bed, c.1200, "state of being in labor," from child + bed (n.). In reference to a bed, real or metaphorical, on which something is born, from 1590s.

As in accouchement : noun birth
As in childbirth : noun giving birth

Example sentences :

It may also be the result in getting up too quickly from the childbed.
Extract from : « Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners » by B.G. Jefferis

Julia, Cæsar's daughter and Pompey's wife, died in childbed.
Extract from : « The Life of Cicero » by Anthony Trollope

The Countess died four years after, in childbed of a daughter.
Extract from : « Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume II (of 3) » by James Dennistoun

In 1818, she was in the pains of childbed when she heard discharges of artillery.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 420, October 1850 » by Various

There, where she had first drawn breath, she died in childbed on the 28th of November.
Extract from : « Women of History » by Anonymous

Pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed.
Extract from : « Elizabethan England » by William Harrison

The Dutch have a proverb, “Where the stork abides no mother dies in childbed”.
Extract from : « A Wanderer in Holland » by E. V. Lucas

Close by, a Kaffir was digging a grave for a Zulu woman who had died in childbed.
Extract from : « Ladysmith » by H. W. Nevinson

Died in childbed a year later, me being at that time on my first voyage.
Extract from : « Poison Island » by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)

The most terrible ghost in Babylonia was that of a woman who had died in childbed.
Extract from : « Myths of Babylonia and Assyria » by Donald A. Mackenzie

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