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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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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.

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