die in childbirth

idiom

: to die while giving birth to a baby

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Mothers, many of whom didn't have health care, were 100 times more likely to die in childbirth. Teresa Leger Fernández, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025 The team tracking maternal and infant health outcomes, which helps the public understand how people die in childbirth, has been placed on administrative leave. ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2025 And there are now fewer people monitoring pregnancy health outcomes or doing in-depth research on why some women and children die in childbirth. Joseph Choi, The Hill, 28 Apr. 2025 In New York City, Black women are nine times as likely to die in childbirth as their white counterparts. Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for die in childbirth

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“Die in childbirth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/die%20in%20childbirth. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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