They reckon that these rumblings are birth pangs of Russian politics.

And suddenly we found ourselves in what felt like the birth pangs of a new tradition.

Next he described more birth pangs which would lead to the coming Kingdom:

An outsider who has watched the birth pangs of democracy here can only hope Latynina is wrong.

Their grief was all but banished three days later when Ragna's birth pangs began.

He did not answer and got a pained scowl, which she recognized as birth pangs of creativity.

In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race.

You can't go through the birth pangs of dideoxy protocols and do it all over again.

Guessing that they were birth pangs, her women sent for Genji in great excitement.

Nursing the new democracy through its birth pangs was hard, bitter, and often disillusioning work.