labor pains
IPA: ɫˈeɪbɝpˈeɪnz
noun
- a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth
Examples of "labor-pains" in Sentences
- After all their labor-pains, their ministerial mountain had brought forth only a mouse — and a still-born one at that.
- After all their labor-pains, their ministerial mountain had brought forth only a mouse -- and a still-born one at that.
- We are suffering now, going through the acute agonizing labor-pains prior to a new birth, and we will come up, and we will become a glorious living example to the world.
- Her uneasiness will rapidly increase -- she will be continually getting up and lying down -- her tail will begin to be elevated and the commencement of the labor-pains will soon be evident.
- In the village to which the horse was sent back, there was a woman who, for several days, was suffering cruelly from labor-pains, without being able to be delivered, so that no human hope remained of saving her life.
- And it is just this unnatural and abnormal fear of labor-pains -- this unwomanly dread of the slightest degree of physical suffering -- that has indirectly led up to so much discussion regarding the employment of "twilight sleep" and other forms of obstetric anesthesia.
- The patient ought to bear in mind then that "true labor-pains" are situated in the back, and loins; they come on at regular intervals, rise gradually up to a certain pitch of intensity, and abate as gradually; it is a dull, heavy, deep sort of pain, producing occasionally a low moan from the patient; not sharp or twinging, which would elicit a very different expression of suffering from her.
- The truth is that he has rationalized his unwillingness to go through the labor-pains of creation by pretending to himself a constant and great need of money, and permitting himself to dissipate his energies in a hectic, disturbed, shallow existence, in a tremor of concert-tours, guest-conductorships, money-making enterprises of all sorts, which leave him about two or three of the summer months for composition, and probably rob him of his best energies.