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Example sentences for: pregnancy

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One begins to get some idea of the extent of the problem reading Parkinson's list of just a few of the colloquial expressions for pregnancy: Away the trip (Scottish working class), to be caught, to be expecting, to be having a baby, to be in a delicate condition, to be in an interesting condition, to be in pig, to be in pod, to be in the family way, to be in the pudding club, to be preggers, to be so, to be up the pole, to be up the stick, to catch on, to catch the virus, to fall for a baby, to have a bun in the oven, to have a touch of the sun.
GOVERNMENT WARNING: (1) According to the Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects.
Women weighed about a pound more one year after delivery than at the start of pregnancy.
Thousands of residents still live in sub-standard conditions, our teen pregnancy rate is the highest in the state, only one-third of residents have high school diplomas, and half of our residents have little hope of participating in community improvements because they do not own their home.
One problem emerging via the coverage is that the fertility-enhancing technology is so expensive that when patients have to pay for it out of their own pockets, instead of via insurance, whether or not a pregnancy results--they pressure doctors to use increasingly potent measures, greatly increasing the chance of high-multiple births.