child-bearing
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Officials said Friday they would promote policies to help with the cost of child-bearing and elderly care.
From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025
Proposals include giving mothers of big families "medals" for child-bearing or even paying new moms a $5,000 baby bonus.
From Salon • May 7, 2025
It has been reported this happened to almost half of all the island's women of child-bearing age between 1966 and 1970.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025
The primary question: can menopause be delayed in healthy women, allowing them to extend their child-bearing years -- and perhaps even forestall some of the health risks and uncomfortable symptoms linked to plummeting estrogen levels?
From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2024
Very grateful am I to you for your attention; and sincerely do I thank God, who has enabled you to mitigate to a most wonderful degree the pains and agony of child-bearing.
From Parturition without Pain or Loss of Consciousness by Townley, James
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