childbed
/ˈtʃʌɪl(d)bɛd
/noun
Archaic term for childbirth.Such was the devastation of puerperal, or childbed, fever, which stormed European and American maternity wards for over a century....
- When Francesca was in childbed after Rosemary and Arthur were born, she was so ill as to never be quite sure of what was going on around her.
- He himself had been born after the Restoration, only to have his mother die, as hers had, in childbed.
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