How to Use childbirth in a Sentence

childbirth

noun
  • More:Hundreds of women almost die in childbirth every year.
    Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The challenge feels especially apt for Turlington, who refers to the common metaphor of marathon-as-childbirth.
    Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 3 Nov. 2021
  • His methods are surprisingly intrusive, as when the camera crew pushes close behind her to record the childbirth.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Physical recovery from childbirth Giving birth is a marathon even if your delivery was quick and seamless.
    Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 10 Oct. 2024
  • This bears all the repeating: People who give birth are incredibly strong, and that strength transcends just the childbirth itself.
    SELF, 16 Oct. 2021
  • On the personal front, Ryan is also still reeling from Alice revealing that her birth mother didn't die in childbirth and is still alive.
    Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The women have known each other since the early 1960s, there for each other’s quinceñeras, weddings, childbirth, divorces and triumphs.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Every two minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, Burns said.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
  • In families the virus passed between married partners, from person to person through household contact such as the sharing of utensils, and from mother to child during childbirth.
    Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • This makes people with vaginas more prone to the intense hormonal fluctuations of pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding.
    Jenn Sinrich, SELF, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Rates of life-threatening medical issues during childbirth for Black health plan members were more than double those of white non-Hispanic members.
    Andrew Dreyfus, STAT, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Thousands of Hoosier women exhibit mental health conditions after pregnancy or childbirth.
    IndyStar, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The film makes a path from childbirth until the common grave at the end.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2022
  • My friends who hadn’t been through childbirth took care of the baby.
    Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The study is the first of its kind to show that the risks of childbirth carry across race and parental income level.
    Theara Coleman, theweek, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The first episode really sets the tone with a montage of childbirth.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • Staff at the zoo were hands-off during the process to give Zuri a quiet space during childbirth.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2024
  • Mothers die in childbirth — where often the child died, too.
    Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Mothers died in childbirth - where often the child died, too.
    Karen Heller, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Among wealthy countries, the U.S. has the highest rate of deaths linked to pregnancy and childbirth.
    Nancy S. Jecker, The Conversation, 23 June 2022
  • But Schultz’s childbirth costs may be less than many women pay.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 16 July 2022
  • With the action set in the mid-1700s, when the risks of childbirth were much greater than today, the stakes are raised and the drama intensifies.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In 1932, while Dorsey was on the road, his wife, Nettie Harper, died in childbirth; their child died a day later.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • The average age of childbirth in South Korea was 33.5 last year.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • And then comes the news that Joy has a heart condition that puts her at a 50/50 chance of dying during childbirth.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Fosse’s Morning and Evening: a childbirth scene, partly from the baby’s point of view, followed by the last day in the life of the old man born in chapter one.
    Damion Searls, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In the United States, Black mothers are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers.
    NBC News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • But the truth is, nothing can prepare you for the intensity of childbirth and those first few days at home.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Black women are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 14 June 2022
  • Yes, there was pain—her childbirth and postpartum was hard.
    Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2024

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