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 most terrible ghost in Babylonia was that of a woman who had died in childbed. |
Close by, a Kaffir was digging a grave for a Zulu woman who had died in childbed. |
The wine of this type of vine, absolutely indigenous, became a legend for the comfort it brings to women in childbed. |
In 1818, she was in the pains of childbed when she heard discharges of artillery. |
The belief in fairies was universal, and their power was specially dreaded in the case of women in childbed and of unbaptised infants. |