Cervassi says there are cases on record of painless confinements, and in my best moods I think mine is to be one of them.
"Muslin"
George Moore
Her eyelids narrowed in the midst of confinements.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
I have been married fifteen years: so that I annually reckon twenty-four livres for the expenses of her confinements and baptisms, one hundred and eight livres for two nurses, having generally two children out at nurse, and sometimes even three.
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh