How to Use childbirth in a Sentence

childbirth

noun
  • Teenage girls are much more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than women in their twenties.
    Ryan Sasse, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Information on pregnancy and childbirth has shifted in the past few decades.
    Hope Corrigan, refinery29.com, 23 June 2021
  • Israel said childbirth in Mississippi is all about convenience.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 June 2021
  • After experiencing the unimaginable beauty of childbirth, this is what is left behind.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 7 June 2021
  • This is exactly why influencers such as Horton have embraced the messiness of childbirth — while pausing to reflect the beauty of the process.
    Hope Corrigan, refinery29.com, 23 June 2021
  • This camaraderie of women, once universal, was a way to provide birth support and also to pass on knowledge about pregnancy, childbirth and parenting.
    Virginia Chang, Scientific American, 19 June 2021
  • The Internet now boasts social-media groups, podcasts, webinars, videos, and books about unassisted childbirth.
    Rebecca Grant, Marie Claire, 9 June 2021
  • Researchers are unsure whether the mother died before or during childbirth, but the fetuses’ gestational age was about 28 to 32 weeks.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2021
  • The film makes a path from childbirth until the common grave at the end.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2022
  • My friends who hadn’t been through childbirth took care of the baby.
    Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The study is the first of its kind to show that the risks of childbirth carry across race and parental income level.
    Theara Coleman, theweek, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The first episode really sets the tone with a montage of childbirth.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • Staff at the zoo were hands-off during the process to give Zuri a quiet space during childbirth.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2024
  • Mothers die in childbirth — where often the child died, too.
    Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Mothers died in childbirth - where often the child died, too.
    Karen Heller, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Among wealthy countries, the U.S. has the highest rate of deaths linked to pregnancy and childbirth.
    Nancy S. Jecker, The Conversation, 23 June 2022
  • But Schultz’s childbirth costs may be less than many women pay.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 16 July 2022
  • With the action set in the mid-1700s, when the risks of childbirth were much greater than today, the stakes are raised and the drama intensifies.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In 1932, while Dorsey was on the road, his wife, Nettie Harper, died in childbirth; their child died a day later.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • The average age of childbirth in South Korea was 33.5 last year.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • And then comes the news that Joy has a heart condition that puts her at a 50/50 chance of dying during childbirth.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Fosse’s Morning and Evening: a childbirth scene, partly from the baby’s point of view, followed by the last day in the life of the old man born in chapter one.
    Damion Searls, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In the United States, Black mothers are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers.
    NBC News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • But the truth is, nothing can prepare you for the intensity of childbirth and those first few days at home.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Black women are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 14 June 2022
  • Yes, there was pain—her childbirth and postpartum was hard.
    Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The film tells the story of Levi (Ben Gavin), a father left to care for his two daughters after his wife dies during childbirth.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Again, pregnancy and childbirth can affect the muscles that keep urine in.
    Jessica Migala, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • For many women, and for Black women in particular, whose pain is systemically disbelieved and dismissed, childbirth in America is regularly life threatening and too often fatal.
    Krista Vernoff, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Shaw, now 43, works as a certified doula, a non-medical professional who assists women during childbirth in Atlanta, Georgia.
    Reuters, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024

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