childbed

[chahyld-bed]

noun

1. the circumstance or situation of a woman giving birth to a child; parturition.

   to lie in childbed.

childbed

/ ˈtʃaɪldˌbɛd /

noun

1. 1. (often preceded by in) the condition of giving birth to a child

   2. ( as modifier )

      childbed fever

Word History and Origins

Origin of childbed¹

Middle English word dating back to 1150–1200; child, bed

Example Sentences

“The childbed is our battlefield,” the late Queen Aemma noted in the premiere, and “Dragon” remains determined to show as well as tell us this fact.

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At the top of the episode, an uncomfortably pregnant Queen Aemma foreshadows her fate: “The childbed is our battlefield,” she tells her daughter, Princess Rhaenyra.

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“The childbed is our battlefield,” she said, and we saw how that turned out.

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This is what happened in the women's hospitals of the 19th century, when doctors spread puerperal or "childbed" fever from one postpartum woman to another.

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Once handwashing protocols were implemented in the Austrian hospital, the rates of women dying from childbed fever plummeted.

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