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What does childbed mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement
  2. (countable) The bed in which a baby is born
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He himself had been born after the Restoration, only to have his mother die, as hers had, in childbed.
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.
Such was the devastation of puerperal, or childbed, fever, which stormed European and American maternity wards for over a century.
Is there any real evidence that women in childbed were more prone to the nightmare, though?
This was one of Stubbs's first works, and his earliest practice of dissection – using the body of a woman who died in childbed.

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