childbed

How To Use childbed In A Sentence

• His late wife, "pretty Mrs. Frescheville," had died in childbed on May 22nd, 1653. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
• The belief in fairies was universal, and their power was specially dreaded in the case of women in childbed and of unbaptised infants.
• She died – probably in childbed – in November of next year (1654), and was buried at Petworth with her infant son. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
• He himself had been born after the Restoration, only to have his mother die, as hers had, in childbed.
• One must be able to think back the way to unknown places … and to partings long foreseen, to days of childhood … and to parents … to days on the sea … to nights of travel … and one must have memories of many nights of love, no two alike … and the screams of women in childbed … one must have sat by the dying, one must have sat by the dead in a room with open windows …. Rainer maria rilke | the notebooks of malte laurids brigge « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
• Such was the devastation of puerperal, or childbed, fever, which stormed European and American maternity wards for over a century.
• In the 1840s, Ignaz Semmelweiss's lonely battle to get the medical establishment to accept that doctors were spreading childbed fever from mother to mother cost him his job and his sanity though his prickly personality didn't help. Is That Scientific Heretic a Genius—or a Loon?
• He afterwards says (p. 280) that Galla died in childbed; and intimates, that the affliction of her husband was extreme but short.] 112 Lycopolis is the modern The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Mathilde was still in childbed, of course, having been delivered safely of a girl on the morning after the storm.
• It occurs to me... my mother lay down twice in childbed for the House of Chalion. THE CURSE OF CHALION