Noun : to lie in childbed.    From Dictionary.com. 

His late wife, "pretty Mrs. Frescheville," had died in childbed on May 22nd, 1653.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference

She died – probably in childbed – in November of next year (1654), and was buried at Petworth with her infant son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference

Charlotte in childbed; it has turned to a royal daughter whose death meets no divine design, only "inscrutable decrees.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans's Reading of Byron] Reference

Childbirth fever (This is also called childbed fever, postpartum infection, or puerperal infection.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 33] Reference

Semmelweis noticed that at the doctor-staffed clinic, about 10% of the women died of something called childbed fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference

Any village girl knows the symptoms of childbed fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dressmaker] Reference

A century ago, I would have been dead in childbed by now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Here's to progress!] Reference

"Can you flee again, so soon out of childbed?" he asked her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rulers of the Darkness]

Jin Li Tam, his wife and mother of his heir, lies in childbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

So he keeps her pregnant, hoping to kill her in childbed one day.    From Wordnik.com.  [DragonFlight]

Pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

That is why she died in childbed only a year after Claire was born.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unacceptable Offer]

It may also be the result in getting up too quickly from the childbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

Allison's death had left him with a permanent fear of women in childbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Never Come Down]

His lady shortly after dying in childbed, to his credit he was re-chosen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

"My sister lies in childbed herself at this very hour," the woman whispered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

It was also known that childbed fever was rare when women gave birth at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: September 2006 Archives] Reference

She called up courage as women must, in childbed or by deathbed, and hastened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

His first wife had been barren; the second died in childbed with a stillborn girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Must Die]

'My son died at birth,' he said, 'and my wife a week later of the childbed fever.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

A distinction I have ever paid to those worthy creatures who dies in childbed by me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Warmth; harvest; bleakness; rebirth; summer again; and Jorith was brought to her childbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Patrolman]

The first Lady Fairfax had died in childbed when the younger daughter was only a year old.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unacceptable Offer]

Then, like as not, "ee'll want to know as how to stop being brought to childbed too often.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outrageous Dowager]

She gave birth to a son, the Prince Edward, in 1537, and died two weeks later of childbed fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twisted Neo-Con Values: That Henry VIII was one hell of a guy!] Reference

Having no wealthy relatives, Mary had given birth behind bars, and died there, of childbed fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Young women conceive readily, but, having conceived, their labour in childbed is apt to be difficult.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

In fact, aside from the childbed fever, I had not been ill once since my passage through the stone circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

Pregnancy and childbirth were the main cause of early death in women; childbed fever killed one of her sisters.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Twitter 12-28-2009] Reference

"When you return to London, you may tell Lord Edgerton that the poor girl died in childbed, her infant with her.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Or rather, her third time to be brought to childbed, for no child was born of that long pregnancy and painful labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Magic]

You will have no mother, O my child, to give you in marriage, to comfort you in childbed when none is tenderer than a mother!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcestis] Reference

The Laird's wife was brought to childbed and old Lady Douglas was in attendance, and suddenly Mary was guarded less than before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

“You may be getting on in years, but so many ladies die in childbed — there are always widowers looking about for a second wife.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady of His Own]

Semmelweis thought there was something the med students were doing that served to raise the rates of childbed fever in those divisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: September 2006 Archives] Reference

"If he hadn't carried me off and abandoned me here, I probably would have married Bert, raised pigs, and died in childbed three years ago.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lark And The Wren]