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child·bed

(chīld′bĕd′)

The condition of a woman in the process of giving birth.

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childbed

(ˈtʃaɪldˌbɛd)

(Gynaecology & Obstetrics)

a. (often preceded by in) the condition of giving birth to a child

b. (as modifier): childbed fever.

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child•bed

(ˈtʃaɪldˌbɛd)

n.

the condition of giving birth; parturition.

[1150–1200]

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Noun

childbed - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

confinement, lying-in, parturiency, travail, labour, labor

uterine contraction - a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal

effacement - shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor

birthing, giving birth, parturition, birth - the process of giving birth

maternity, pregnancy, gestation - the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus

premature labor, premature labour - labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation

asynclitism, obliquity - the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle

Translations

λοχεία

childbed

[ˈtʃaɪldbed] N → parturición f

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For a nurse for the month, and use of childbed linen .

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The wife probably died in childbed. The fact that he has a picture-book under his arm shows that there is another child to be thought of."

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I read in horrified fascination about Ignaz Semmelweis, the tragic Hungarian obstetrician, who in the mid-1800s already held the key to ridding Europe of childbed fever -- for obstetricians to wash their hands -- but no one in the entrenched medical establishment believed him.

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A (http://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0343-1) study published in the medical journal Nature Genetics analyzed strains of group A streptococcus, which usually causes strep throat and can also cause childbed fever disease.

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Although three physicians-Alexander Gordon (1752-1799), Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), and Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865)-ad demonstrated that puerperal fever (childbed fever) could be prevented by cleanliness among midwives and physicians, their influence was limited.

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(1) In the late 1840s, Semmelweis discovered that simple handwashing drastically reduced the incidence of childbed fever in maternity clinics.

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The first instance of the latter is in The Golden Age (1610; Red Bull), a play in which we also perhaps see the transition from one way to another of directing how a bed is to be put on stage, because the play includes both the earlier format--'Enter Sibilla lying in childbed, with her child lying by her, and her Nurse, &c.'--and the later format: 'Enter the foure old Beldams, drawing out Dana's bed: she in it'.

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He was horrified when he went to work for a maternity hospital in Vienna, Austria, to find out that one mother in ten was dying of childbed fever there.