childbed

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Recent Examples of childbed After the violence of the childbed, women were then expected to perform domestic labor that was expressly gendered and acknowledged as backbreaking. Time, 20 Jan. 2023
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confinement
Noun
  • Writing becomes an act of containment—not confinement.
    Matthew Clark Davison, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
  • The former president returned to confinement in the Seoul Detention Center about 20 km (12 miles) south of the capital after the decision.
    Reuters, NBC news, 9 July 2025

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“Childbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/childbed. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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