bring to bed

bring to bed (third-person singular simple present brings to bed, present participle bringing to bed, simple past and past participle brought to bed)

1. (archaic, usually in the passive voice) To deliver of a child.

   His wife was brought to bed of a daughter that evening.

   • 1842, Catherine Crowe, Susan Hopley, Or, The Adventures of a Maid-servant‎:

     However, after they had lived in this way for some time, Mrs Leeson, to her own surprise and that of everybody else, found herself in the family way, and was brought to bed of as lovely a little boy as eyes ever looked upon.