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
The fertility rate - which measures how many children are born per woman during her child-bearing years - is the lowest on record at 1.44.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
In order to feel my best, I paid closer attention to my hormones and hunted for a gynecologist interested in what happens to women beyond child-bearing years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
His spirit hung swaying in his loose nerves, breathed upon by soft airs; for he was already in that dissolving nervous ecstasy of the fainting, the child-bearing, the exhausted by bleeding, the dying.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
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