Below you will find example sentences with "giving birth". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Giving Birth in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: birth
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 13
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.6 words

Words in this phrase

giving birth

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • giving can mean: present participle and gerund of give Common word
  • birth can mean: The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's ... Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

after giving birth many new 1× aid in giving birth and post 1× belief that giving birth at home 1× characterized by giving birth to relatively 1× collapse after giving birth to her 1× complications in giving birth 1× depressed after giving birth to rowan 1× even though giving birth at home 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a grieving man 1× a period of 1× after giving birth 1× black women are 1× but brooke who 1× but even though 1×

Common sentence endings:

her first child 2× a continued practice 1× a long time 1× after giving birth 1× as white women 1× birth to him 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

women 5× home 5× though 3× despite 3× baby 3× months 3× child 3× hold 2× way 2× continued 2× less 2× day 2×

Related phrases

give birth birth certificate gave birth low birth giving thanks

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around birth:

give birth 19× birth certificate 14× low birth 12×

Just before it in the phrase index:

given strong given permission given hold given buy give yourself give thanks

Just after it in the phrase index:

giving thanks glasgow city glass bottle glass roof glassy semi glenwood springs

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

giving thanks

Same ending:

give birth gave birth low birth

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "giving birth" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as after giving birth many new, aid in giving birth and post, women, home and though stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with give birth, birth certificate, gave birth, give birth, birth certificate and low birth, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with giving birth

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Dr Bianca Newcombe was forced to change career paths after giving birth to her first child. (16 words)

Food writer Su Scott says her started to "collapse" after giving birth to her first child. (16 words)

In 2019, one man in India even attempted to sue his parents for giving birth to him. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

In Ebonyi State, women hold on to the belief that giving birth at home is the only way to show that you are a strong woman, and giving birth in a health facility is a sign of weakness, so births at home with no one present is a continued practice. (50 words)

But even though giving birth at home or at a birth center is less expensive than a three-day hospital stay or a surgery, insurance typically doesn’t cover it – leaving families to cover the cost themselves. (37 words)

A grieving man has described how his heart breaks 'every day that his partner isn't here' because she died moments after giving birth to their daughter Phoebe without ever getting the chance to hold her baby. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

In Ebonyi State, women hold on to the belief that giving birth at home is the only way to show that you are a strong woman, and giving birth in a health facility is a sign of weakness, so births at home with no one present is a continued practice.

In the 1800s Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that women giving birth at home had a much lower incidence of childbed fever than those giving birth by physicians in lying-hospitals.

But even though giving birth at home or at a birth center is less expensive than a three-day hospital stay or a surgery, insurance typically doesn’t cover it – leaving families to cover the cost themselves.

Prior to giving birth to her son, Ms Haigh had been living at flats in Clarke Street, Young, and despite spending most of her time post-birth elsewhere, she retained the residence.

Jamie therefore sought the help of a midwife in April and, once she agreed to a home birth, hoped there would be no serious complications in giving birth.

Black women are three times as likely to die giving birth or shortly after birth as white women.

Hera was jealous of Zeus' giving birth to Athena without recourse to her (actually with Metis ), so she gave birth to Hephaestus without him, though in some stories, he is the son of her and Zeus.

Hilot is claimed to relax muscles, reset sprained joints, assess and treat musculoligamentous and musculoskeletal ailments, aid in giving birth and post-birth recovery for mother and baby, and to induce abortion.

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Like other mammals in the Metatheria, they are characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young, often residing in a pouch with the mother for a certain time after birth.

After giving birth, many new moms are eager to get back into shape and regain their pre-pregnancy bodies.

A grieving man has described how his heart breaks 'every day that his partner isn't here' because she died moments after giving birth to their daughter Phoebe without ever getting the chance to hold her baby.

A period of blooming in pregnancy is well-known, though less common is a blossoming in the months after giving birth.

But Brooke, who starred in the films Pretty Baby and Blue Lagoon, said she was so depressed after giving birth to Rowan that her daughter felt like 'a stranger' to her for a long time.

But in the U.S., is forced to take fewer than 11 days of parental leave after giving birth, despite a recommended six- to eight-week recovery period.

But Trump continued being Trump, his presidency gave way to one controversy and broken norm after another, and New York become a capital of the resistance, giving birth to persistent mass protests.

Dr Bianca Newcombe was forced to change career paths after giving birth to her first child.

Food writer Su Scott says her started to "collapse" after giving birth to her first child.

In 2019, one man in India even attempted to sue his parents for giving birth to him.

In February during her Super Bowl performance she announced she was expecting her second child, just nine months after giving birth to her firstborn.

In the clip, overlaid captions reveal how the nomadic women work hard until giving birth and to prove this, Vera is seen conducting a range of chores despite being almost nine months pregnant.

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