Benjamin Spock

U.S. doctor and author, in Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945

There are only two things a child will share willingly--communicable diseases and his mother's age.

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[with child] {adv. phr.}, {literary} Going to have a baby; pregnant. * /The angel told Mary she was with child./ Compare: [IN A FAMILY WAY] or [IN THE FAMILY WAY]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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