| He himself had been born after the Restoration, only to have his mother die, as hers had, in childbed. |
| For many, service to Christ constituted the only creditable alternative to matrimony and childbed. |
| Such was the devastation of puerperal, or childbed, fever, which stormed European and American maternity wards for over a century. |
| When Francesca was in childbed after Rosemary and Arthur were born, she was so ill as to never be quite sure of what was going on around her. |
| The belief in fairies was universal, and their power was specially dreaded in the case of women in childbed and of unbaptised infants. |
| Is there any real evidence that women in childbed were more prone to the nightmare, though? |
