And if no restraint be taken, and if no precautions be taken against conception, a woman could have twenty or thirty children during her childbearing period.
Having a harder time in childbearing means a slower convalescence, a need for more rest and care.
The modern woman fears childbearing as her ancestress did not, partly through greater knowledge, partly through her divided attitude towards life.
Is the modern woman more susceptible to the effects of pregnancy,--less resistant to the strain of childbearing and childbirth?
Modern woman undoubtedly will continue to take the stand that childbearing should be voluntary, that involuntary motherhood is incompatible with her dignity and status as a person.
And this: That Mary got to her childbearing period sooner than she would have if she hadn't insisted on marrying John before he was ready to support her.
All social coercion toward childbearing having been withdrawn from her, the only guide she had left (and it would have been her best one) was instinct and impulse.
Now it could not have been the woman who desires economic independence through self-support who was responsible for the ultimate aversion to childbearing in the Roman world--for SHE did not exist.
The world is turning round and over and back to that one previous historical era when the aversion to childbearing was widespread.
And most of them were still in their childbearing period.
Excessive childbearing is a prolific cause in women of consumption, and excessive sexual indulgence is a frequent cause of it in both sexes.
For a woman, the beginning of childbearing for the State was fixed at twenty years of age, and it was to continue until forty.
At the menopause there may be various physical or mental disturbances which are probably due more to the somewhat abrupt advent of old age, at the cessation of the childbearing part of life, rather than to the menopause itself.
At the end of the childbearing period menstruation gradually ceases.
And as has been previously demonstrated, society in the past has wasted the work-power of women past the childbearing age in more ruthless and stupid prodigality than any other of its treasures.
There are other cases in which marriage is right and childbearing may be wrong.
Excessive childbearing is harder on the woman who lacks care than on the one who does not, but both alike must give their bodies time to recover from the strain of childbearing.
Authorities are insistent upon their warnings that too frequent childbearing wrecks the woman's health.
Childbearing should be avoided within two or three years after the birth of the last child.
Childbearing is also a grave danger to the tubercular mother.
Approximately ninety per cent of these deaths are directly or indirectly due to malnutrition, to other diseased conditions resulting from poverty, or to excessive childbearing by the mother.
Yet that one act, performed only once a year, might be sufficient to "keep a woman with one child in her womb and another at her breast" during her entire childbearing period.
Excessive childbearingis now recognized by the medical profession as one of the most prolific causes of ill health in women.
It is the essential function of voluntary motherhood to choose its own mate, to determine the time of childbearingand to regulate strictly the number of offspring.
It is highly desirable from the mother's standpoint to postponechildbearing until she has attained a ripe physical and mental development, as the bearing and nursing of infants interferes with such development.
If she does marry, it brings her to the period when childbearing imposes its necessary limitation, not so well prepared as she might be for carrying on her special work in hours of leisure.
To woman it is given to accept a self-sacrifice which nature has mapped out for her by specializing her for childbearing and which society has mapped out for her by specializing her for housekeeping.
Had childbearing been regulated in the interest of the masters, Todd's woman would have had less than forty-one and Amy less than her nineteen, for such excesses impaired the vitality of the children.
The childbearing records of the women past middle age ran higher than those of the younger ones to a surprising degree.
To the overwrought nerves of many a Puritan woman, taught to believe meekly the doctrines of her father, and weakened in body by ceaseless childbearing and unending toil, such a picture must indeed have been terrifying.
There are those who contend that childbearing may be rendered practically painless, and those who desire information upon this subject would do well to read the book entitled "Maternity Without Suffering," which is worth many times its cost.
There are good books upon this subject, and those who live hygienically and properly will find the terrors of childbearinggreatly mitigated; indeed, they may be almost wholly alleviated.
With most women the time for childbearing is quite like the time and location of a boil--any other time than the present, and any other place than where it is.
There are other women who dread the care and rearing of children, and there are still others whose aversion to childbearing is wholly due to their false ideas of life.
At about forty-five years of age, and in some very much earlier, the reproductive nature of woman undergoes those changes which render conception and childbearing impossible.
When the menstrual function ceases, then the period of childbearing is over.
In not one letter in a thousand which we receive do wives ask how childbearing may be prevented, while every day brings us many, many letters asking if something cannot be done in order that there may be a baby in the house.
Visibly we have the care and labor of housekeeping, the strain and anxiety of childbearing as it is practised, the elaborate convention of "receiving" and "entertaining.
This Duty ofChildbearing is evidently weighing on the minds of men, in these days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "childbearing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bearing; birth; childbearing; confinement; delivery; hatching; labor; parturition; stork; travail
