Crossword clues for childbed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Childbed \Child"bed\, n. The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement 2 (context countable English) The bed in which a baby is born
WordNet
n. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail]
Usage examples of "childbed".
The early Italic Lucina was a goddess of light and therefore-because birth is the first time we see her-of labor and childbed as well.
What man would expose himself, for the pleasure he enjoys, to the pains of pregnancy and the dangers of childbed?
Surprised, both that I should want to make love so soon after childbed and that I should be the one wanting in the first instance, he nevertheless responded, and I know that our grunts and breathless, muffled cries must have entertained our huddled fireside companions.
It followed quite logically from that fact that his wife, who had died in childbed, whom he still mourned, if Katherine Witherspoon was to be believed-must have been Indian.
Her death in childbed, giving birth to another daughter, had sunk the castle into honest mourning.
Insofar as Tiglath is concerned, you know of course that Eltanin lost his fair-haired darling bride in childbed and their first son to the Plague.
She tended their wounds and sicknesses, helped their wives in childbed, and had established a school for their children.
Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.
She had succumbed to childbed fever before the prince was one week old.
Halaravilli killed his mother with childbed fever, the king had wasted no time taking a second wife.
On the Nature, Signs, and Treatment of Childbed Fevers : in a Series of Letters addressed to the Students of his Class.
My object was not to settle the etymology or definition of a word, but to show that women had often died in childbed, poisoned in some way by their medical attendants.
His first wife had suffered several miscarriages before dying in childbed some seventeen years before he married Liz.
Count Lavastina died in childbed almost twenty years after the birth of Charles Lavastine, giving birth to her second child, another boy, called Geoffrey.
Where he made for his love a childbed for her labor lies only a soft blanket, nothing else, no trace of her.