The process of giving birth to a child

Usage examples of childbirth.

Churel: A woman, who has died unnaturally or in childbirth during the festival of Divali, may return with her feet on back to front.

After experiencing the ordeal of mortal childbirth I would gladly have done it the next time by any other means were it possible.

Saint knew Dwight Baldwin as a man of infinite compassion and caring for his fellowman, but like many men, religious or otherwise, he believed firmly that it was the scheme of things for a woman to undergo childbirth with nothing to ease her agony.

For our own gynecologists have recently discovered that many women can be conditioned psychologically for natural and painless childbirth.

There was one woman who was really excited about the Lamaze method of childbirth, and when I was going to have my last kid, she taught it to me.

Caepionis died in childbirth the day before Lucius Licinius Crassus Orator and Quintus Mucius Scaevola promulgated a new law about the Italian situation to the members of the Senate, with the result that the Marcus Livius Drusus who dragged himself to the meeting to hear the nature of the bill was in no fit state to lend the matter the attention it warranted.

Bronislaw Malinowski thought he had discovered a people in the Trobriand Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth.

Further, I say that had we never been cursed with these luminosities, we should not also be cursed today with most of our complications in childbirth.

Unlike Olivia, Victoria was deathly afraid of childbirth, and all she wanted now was Edouard beside her.

Though your grandfather would have said that the union of two patricians is fraught with peril in childbirth.

Llangarlia, who traditionally had enjoyed healthy pregnancies and easy labors, now began to miscarry and, worse, die during childbirth.

To the Clan, a new life was formed by the ubiquitous essences of the totems, and any relationship between sexual activity and childbirth was beyond conception.

Sir Tristram will not live long, when you will marry again, and you will die from the effects of childbirth in your forty-seventh year.

The teachers were discussing pregnancy and childbirth rather than changeover while the victim himself appeared to be enjoying the surreptitious glances he was getting from his envious peers.

Altogether Cornelia had the care of four women who had knowledge of childbirth both personally and through aiding scores of other women give birth.