GC: n

S: NCBI – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1139579/pdf/medhist00072-0005.pdf (last access: 28 October 2024); ACAOUP – https://academic.oup.com/book/27155/chapter-abstract/196559078?redirectedFrom=fulltext (last access: 28 October 2024).

N: 1. Also child-bed, c.1200, “state of being in labor,” from child + bed (n.). In reference to a bed, real or metaphorical, on which something is born, from 1590s.

2. The condition of a woman in childbirth.
First Known Use of CHILDBED: 13th century.

S: 1. Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=childbed&searchmode=none (last access: 3 September 2014). 2. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/childbed (last access: 7 August 2015).

GV: child-bed.

S: Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=childbed&searchmode=none (last access: 3 September 2014)

SYN: postpartum period, puerperium. (depending on context)

S: GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8437263/post-partum (last access: 28 October 2024)

CR: afterpains, childbirth, midwife, nulligravida, nullipara, pregnancy, puerperal fever, quarantine.