Childbearing [noun]

At the end of the childbearing period menstruation gradually ceases.

The world is turning round and over and back to that one previous historical era when the aversion to childbearing was widespread.

After twenty-five years bearing, and forbearing, and childbearing, you will smile at your gentle-shepherding of to-day.

It is most important that the childbearing wife and mother have a long period of rest between births.

She made her will in the avowed expectation that she was about to undergo the perils of childbearing.

Sooner or later we shall have to accept legally what we now recognize as fact,—the restriction of childbearing.

What was her flesh but for childbearing, her strength for her children and her husband, the giver of life?

Loss of figure is, I fear, inseparable from childbearing especially if the woman works hard.

The women went to the limit in childbearing, and the burden of rearing their large families was awful.

Directions are given to women in sickness and in childbearing.