childbirth
IPA: tʃˈaɪɫdbɝθ
noun
- The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.
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Examples of "childbirth" in Sentences
- She died in childbirth with their fourteenth child.
- According to some sources, a teenage girl is more likely to die in childbirth than to complete primary school.
- However, childbirth is still a mysterious event for some aspects and you can never know with certainty what may happen.
- While the act of childbirth is an adventure in itself, Shaw exaggerates the metaphor and transcends it, all with a whimsical yet serious beat.
- Having almost expired in childbirth (and having thus been hastily baptized to save his immortal soul), the little boy fell victim to scrofula and was stricken partially blind and deaf.
- After Mollie died in childbirth, leaving Max with a baby daughter, Sophie and William Pearson took the baby into their own family, and raised her with their own son and daughters (including Granny).
- The statistic is not the probability of a pregnant woman dying in childbirth but the number (or probability in a specified country) of a womnan dying in childbirth, regardless of the number of pregnant women.
- Orphaned by their mothers death in childbirth and their fathers disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
- The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of feminine perfection.
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