Apart from this, menstruation and accouchement constitute the only exceptions based on physiology.
According to Grüber (Hygiene des Geschlechtslebens) accouchement requires an interruption of at least four weeks; I should say at least six weeks.
The Queen's accouchement approached; Te Deums were sung and prayers offered up in all the cathedrals.
Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses; the Queen was therefore obliged to stay a whole day in her sister-in-law's chamber.
In seven days after theaccouchement the woman had completely regained her health.
In about three weeks after the accouchement she had connection with her husband, and in a few days felt fetal movements.
Rodet and Engelmunn, in their most extensive and interesting papers on the modes of accouchement among the primitive peoples, substantiate the fear, pain, and difficulty with which labor is attended, even in the lowest grades of society.
There is another observation of anaccouchement terminating successfully twenty-three days after the loss of the amniotic fluid.
It is said that at the same accouchement the birth of this monster was followed by the birth of a well-formed female child, who survived.
Bonnain and Payne have observed analogous cases of this abnormality of the vaginal opening and subsequent accouchement by the anus.
Polaillon speaks of a pregnancy consecutive to ovariotomy, the accouchementbeing normal at term.
Capuron, Gravis, and Lebrun all report accouchement through a perineal perforation, without alteration in the sphincter ani or the fourchet.
Hyneaux mentions forcible accouchementpractised on both the dead and the dying.
Brochin speaks of a case in which pregnancy was complicated with fibroma of the uterus, the accouchement being natural at term.
Olier cites an instance of ovariotomy with a pregnancy of twins three months afterward, and accouchement at term of two well-developed boys.
Enguin reports an observation of an accouchement of twins after a pregnancy that had been prolonged for eleven months.
And as this was unavoidable on the part of the mothers, they were required, as in the cases of the mothers of Chrishna and Christ, to present themselves on the eighth day after accouchement to the priest in the temple to be purified.
The accouchement of a royal princess was in those days an event that concerned all Paris, and all the authorities and corporations of the great capital had representatives in those reception-rooms.
His master had narrated to him all the particulars of the accouchement of the countess and of the abduction of the child.
This lamentable affair was related to me by the Mother-Abbess, when I had some acquaintance with her at the time of the accouchement I have spoken of, which I never had before, nor since.
There is the same "Accouchement at the Fire," to use the expression in vogue in the country.
It means that a fire is kindled by the woman's couch from the beginning of the accouchement to the time she is allowed to leave her bed, seven days after the birth.
Deviolaine's sally at theaccouchement of his wife.
He had been summoned at once to the accouchement couch, and given to hold and identify the babe.
In spite of their great dissimilarity in age, appearance, character, and manner, the two Queens became fast friends, and Yolande was permitted to weld the intimacy into a permanent relationship at the fortunate accouchement of Isabeau.
At each accouchement of the French Queen her devoted mother assisted, and it was a long family of grandchildren she nursed upon her knee.
They became the more intimate, because the doctor's help was often needed for the accouchement of persons with whom Rantzau had had adulterous intercourse.
Unfortunately, Struensee assisted in the accouchement with Berger,[150] and no other physicians were afterwards called in.
When the pain is on, she grasps the tree with both hands, thrown up backward over her head, and pulls and strains with all her might, thus assisting each pain, until her accouchement is over.
One writer thus describes the accouchement of a woman in the vicinity of San Diego: "A few hours before the time arrives she gets up and quietly walks off alone, as if nothing extraordinary was about to occur.
Whenever the time of her accouchement approaches, she never fails to bid her friends adieu, in the notion that she will die.
The Dauphine was so ill-treated in her accouchement of the Duc de Berri that she became quite deformed, although previous to this her figure had been remarkably good.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accouchement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: birth; childbearing; confinement; delivery; hatching; labor; parturition; stork; travail
