How to Use childbirth in a Sentence

childbirth

noun
  • All these issues are common among athletes who rush back to full training after childbirth.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 8 July 2022
  • Women don't usually see their doctors for six to eight weeks after childbirth.
    Geri Stengel, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • Even with health insurance, childbirth can be very expensive.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 June 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
  • Intimate scenes of pregnancy and childbirth, for instance, are a common feature of a lot of the recent mom lit canon.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 27 June 2022
  • If the women have children, the healthcare costs of pregnancy and childbirth and raising children are much greater than the cost of a plane ticket.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 28 June 2022
  • Joan died in childbirth when Isabella was just 10 years old, already predeceased by two of her daughters.
    Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
  • But the scientific jury is out on how pregnancy and childbirth affect performance.
    Sejal Parekh, ABC News, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • Vanessa Kirby stars in Pieces of a Woman, as Martha, who goes through a traumatic childbirth and loses her child.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 23 June 2022
  • These mothers are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women over 20, and also have greater chances of suffering uterine ruptures, preeclampsia and anemia.
    Marina Lopes, Washington Post, 2 July 2022
  • Each breathable pair has a wide, thick waistband that's double-layered to provide extra compression, which can feel helpful after the body changes of pregnancy and childbirth.
    Malia Griggs, Glamour, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Aftershock follows the families of two women who suffer preventable deaths from childbirth and also highlights the families and activists fighting for change.
    Mariette Williams, Essence, 20 June 2022
  • Among those concerns: Black women are considerably more likely to die from childbirth than white women, even when accounting for education.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 20 June 2022
  • Care, or lack of it, has a profound impact in the immediate months after childbirth for parents and babies; in the first year after pregnancy, the leading direct cause of death for women is suicide.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 June 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
  • 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
  • The average age of childbirth in South Korea was 33.5 last year.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yes, there was pain—her childbirth and postpartum was hard.
    Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The film tells the story of Levi (Ben Gavin), a father left to care for his two daughters after his wife dies during childbirth.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2022
  • But each childbirth experience is unique and goes at its own pace.
    Parents Editors, Parents, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Melissa Carrick, a doula, said the blizzard forced her to coach a pregnant client through childbirth by telephone.
    Carolyn Thompson, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • And all the scenes of orgies, disturbingly graphic childbirth and dragon-flying in the world can't fix a dull plot and a stilted script.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Kerr later learned that long before her four children were born, Mary lost a baby in childbirth.
    Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024

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