(n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
(2) All patients with puerperal psychosis admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital within 90 days of childbirth during the periods 1880-90 and 1971-80 were compared.
(3) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(4) Burns account for 9 per cent of the deaths occurring to women aged 15-49, and were the third cause of death (after disease of the circulatory system and complications of pregnancy and childbirth).
(5) This loss of neural regulation may result from mechanical damage to the pelvic nerves due to childbirth or pelvic surgery, exposure to environmental toxins (e.g., organochlorine insecticides or heavy metals), or possibly exposure to an infectious agent.
(6) She campaigns against deaths in childbirth and goes to Glastonbury with Naomi Campbell.
(7) Strategies for enhancing care involve using childbirth and sibling classes, modifying health care and information from primary care providers, mobilizing supportive services and resources, and influencing policies to meet maternal and family needs.
(8) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(9) Ultrasound and pulsed electromagnetic energy therapies are increasingly used for perineal trauma sustained during childbirth.
(10) However, important cultural differentials exist in the medical services sought for childbirth and in the treatment of morbidity in children of different ages and sexes.
(11) A history of childbirth, antecedent surgery, multiple episodes of recurrence, resistance to excisional and radiation therapy, represent common features of desmoid tumors.
(12) Contraceptive information is in special demand among women having abortions, women after childbirth, and youth.
(13) During childbirth infibulation causes a variety of serious problems includind prolonged labor and obstructed delivery, with increased risk of fetal brain damage and fetal loss.
(14) A 50.8% reduction in childbirth was found in the study group, although 77% of families had decided against further high-risk pregnancies.
(15) Third, women do not attempt to assess the probabilities of particular outcomes, but instead construct mental images of anticipated events based upon past childbirth experience and expected consequences of the preferred course of action.
(16) In the case of a curable cause the childbirth should take place near a well equipped neonatology department, with a neonatal intensive care unit and surgical possibilities.
(17) A number of factors seem likely to be important in the aetiology of the condition in Milne Bay Province, including infection associated with previous childbirth and abortion.
(18) Of the 133 pregnancies that ended in childbirth, 59.4% of the mothers felt that the refusal had been completely justified, 24.8% were ambivalent, and 15.8% felt that the refusal had been unjustified.
(19) A young girl in South Sudan is three times likelier to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to finish primary school, said the Unesco report.
(20) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
Travail
Definition:
(n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
(n.) Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
(n.) To labor with pain; to toil.
(n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
(v. t.) To harass; to tire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet Malema's influence continues to grow and his travails are watched with interest.
(2) The terrorists know that if Iraq and Afghanistan survive their assault, come through their travails, seize the opportunity the future offers, then those countries will stand not just as nations liberated from oppression, but as a lesson to humankind everywhere and a profound antidote to the poison of religious extremism.
(3) "It is premature to call the all-clear on the jobs front, despite recently improved economic activity and the overall resilience of the labour market through the economy's travails," said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight.
(4) The billion-dollar question now is whether Clinton’s recent travails will embolden bigger Democratic fish to take her on.
(5) US network ABC has commissioned a new documentary-style series following Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear et al, and their everyday travails rather than the globe-trotting, song-and-dance adventures that have characterised their film outings.
(6) Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute – employer of such luminaries as Iraq War stooge Judith Miller, invariably wrong William Kristol and racist hack Charles Murray – was willing to go even further than Marshall in placing the blame for women’s economic travails on alienation from “the family” and then further blaming women’s thoughts for turning women against where they belong.
(7) Disney and Lucasfilm also have a film about the youthful travails of Han Solo in the works, while a third spin-off film is rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett.
(8) Indeed, you can see the roots of many of the BBC's current travails – that it looks too big and acts too competitively, with little care for its market impact on nascent or struggling commercial players – in the massive expansion of BBC services that occurred.
(9) Instead, the travails of prime minister Birgitte Nyborg have become a BBC4 sensation, with Borgen winning a Bafta and viewing figures topping a million – significant numbers for any subtitled drama, but particularly one outside the crime genre.
(10) QPR added to Rotherham ’s travails near the foot of the table, goals from Junior Hoilett, Matt Phillips and Sebastian Polter securing the visitors’ first win in eight games.
(11) Men's concerns, interests, anxieties or even pride in our own gender roles are typically sheltered by the conceits of fiction – as seen in the exquisite 62-hour thesis on modern masculinity that was Breaking Bad – or filtered through protective layers of irony and humour.Social media users recently parodied the internal travails of feminism with the hashtag #MeninistTwitter, but behind the walls of laddish banter and sexism, there were some very real anxieties and resentments on display.
(12) For all those who have found this new stadium experience hard, it was a moment to lose themselves in, to forget their travails.
(13) Clegg's travails on constitutional reform have reduced Labour appetite for such changes.
(14) Eurozone finance ministers are to meet in Brussels on Monday to ponder their options, but are unlikely to decide very much, given the political imponderables and the unresolved splits between German-led belt-tighteners and French-led proponents of growth policies as the answer to Europe's travails.
(15) Twelve Years a Slave stars McQueen's fellow Briton Chiwetel Ejiofor as a real historical figure named Solomon Northup whose 1853 autobiography details the free New Yorker's capture by slavers in Washington DC in 1841 and his subsequent travails on the plantations of Louisiana.
(16) From the travails of emerging economies to the scale of the Chinese downturn, there is much to debate at the gathering in Lima, alongside tackling longstanding problems such as cracking down on the tax affairs of multinational corporations .
(17) For if Occupy Wall Street reframed the debate, then it also provided the basis to depict Romney as out-of-touch magnate with a tin ear for the travails of the common man.
(18) The Quebec Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST) Toxicological Index is fully involved in the provincial program for the protective reassignment of workers who breast-feed infants.
(19) He also said he had spoken with Italian premier Mario Monti, who had denied blaming Spain's travails for rocketing Italian bond yields.
(20) The latest manoeuvring in the blame game over the travails of the Co-op bank continued on Sunday with the Conservative party chairman, Grant Shapps, claiming that Ed Miliband needed to explain why he did not know about the personal failings of Flowers.