| The belief in fairies was universal, and their power was specially dreaded in the case of women in childbed and of unbaptised infants. |
| He himself had been born after the Restoration, only to have his mother die, as hers had, in childbed. |
| Such was the devastation of puerperal, or childbed, fever, which stormed European and American maternity wards for over a century. |
| The wine of this type of vine, absolutely indigenous, became a legend for the comfort it brings to women in childbed. |
| The most terrible ghost in Babylonia was that of a woman who had died in childbed. |
| Is there any real evidence that women in childbed were more prone to the nightmare, though? |
