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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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There, where she had first drawn breath, she died in childbed on the 28th of November.
In 1818, she was in the pains of childbed when she heard discharges of artillery.
The most terrible ghost in Babylonia was that of a woman who had died in childbed.
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.
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.

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