Secondly, that if the mother of his two illegitimate children had lived with him in London as his wife, she must have just died-perhaps in childbed, perhaps of the Plague.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
To the vulgar Moslem feminine government appears impossible, and I was once asked by an Afghan, "What would happen if the queen were in childbed?"
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
What man would expose himself, for the pleasure he enjoys, to the pains of pregnancy and the dangers of childbed?
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt