confinement

• That "twilight sleep," being almost exclusively a hospital procedure, would result in more women going to the hospital for their confinement--if it were used more; and would, therefore, tend to bring about more careful supervision and individual care on the part of the attending obstetrician 4. —  The Mother and Her Child
• He arranged for the confinement, afterwards he took the baby and the mother to live in the home of his mother. —  Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
• The means necessary to accomplish the first movement after a confinement is a matter of choice. —  The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
• By it I glory among the angels of heaven and the Supreme Concourse Be rejoiced, O friends of God, with this confinement which is a cause of freedom, this prison which is a means of salvation (to many) and this suffering which is the best cause of great comfort. —  Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
• Have the goodness to recollect this particularly The books I have brought with me are a great consolation for the confinement, and I bought more as we came along. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals

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