How to Use childbirth in a Sentence

childbirth

noun
  • 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
  • The average age of childbirth in South Korea was 33.5 last year.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But each childbirth experience is unique and goes at its own pace.
    Parents Editors, Parents, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Melissa Carrick, a doula, said the blizzard forced her to coach a pregnant client through childbirth by telephone.
    Carolyn Thompson, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Kerr later learned that long before her four children were born, Mary lost a baby in childbirth.
    Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Key Takeaways Many babies are born with coneheads due to the squeezing that occurs during childbirth, which causes swelling on the top of the head.
    Maria Carter, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
  • No Stones: Your husband isn’t comparing the pain of childbirth to kidney stones – his sister is.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Hafner: Over the next two years, Christine had two children, a son who died just a few days after childbirth, and a daughter, Margaret.
    The Lost Women Of Science Initiative, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The mix of what drives the women’s health gap varies, and in low- and medium-income countries it is driven more by poor maternal health and high rates of death in childbirth.
    Kweilin Ellingrud, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Obstetrics is the branch of medicine concerned with the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Another hot topic online was the need to face the risks of harm during pregnancy and childbirth.
    Lyric Li, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • When the diary begins, John is in the intense grip of grief after his wife and baby have both died following childbirth.
    Lauren Silverman, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
  • After childbirth, mothers are served a soup made of miyeok, iron-rich and brown, and children are served it on their birthdays to honor mothers.
    Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The richest 20% of Black mothers and their babies are twice as likely as the richest 20% of white mothers and babies to die during childbirth.
    Kinsey Crowley, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Tori Bowie, a 32-year-old Olympic athlete who ran track and field, died in late April from childbirth complications while eight months pregnant.
    Emily Nadal, Parents, 12 July 2023
  • McDaniel said the March of Dimes is participating in that work to help reduce the number of women who die in the first year after childbirth.
    Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • In traditional Chinese medicine, pregnancy and childbirth throws off the body’s yin and yang (or cold and heat) so the diet must correct this.
    Hetty Lui McKinnon, Bon Appétit, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The ancient Egyptians used it for joint pain, and Hippocrates recommended it for childbirth.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
  • People in those groups face some of the worst outcomes in the U.S., where more women die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth than in other high-income nations.
    Ronnie Cohen | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • After explaining the laws of childbirth, the laws of the metzora are presented (Leviticus 13).
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
  • They're often caused by trauma, childbirth, or vaginal surgery.
    Women's Health, 26 June 2023
  • No, men don’t go through the same hormonal changes as women during pregnancy and childbirth.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • Sudden hair loss and thinning isn't uncommon and can be due to a number of factors, like diet change, childbirth, aging, and stress.
    Alex Warner, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Black women are more than twice as likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth as white women.
    Clare Egan, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2023

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