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View synonyms for childbed

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. often preceded by in the condition of giving birth to a child
    2. ( as modifier )

      childbed fever

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of childbed1

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

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.

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

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.

From Salon

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

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