(1) Six months later, Graciano returns on time to witness his wife give birth to his firstborn child.(2) Over 70 percent of firstborn children are born to unmarried couples.(3) A firstborn child may share the parents' bed for two or three years, but if there is an older sister, that child may sleep with her after a year or so.(4) But I am still grieving, just a little bit, for that overwhelming and lovely love that is the firstborn 's privilege, just as the relaxed and expansive love of experience is the second-born's special right.(5) My firstborn child taught me a thing or two about this when she first started bringing home her classmates.(6) Plantation workers developed a highly regulated system of fosterage in which firstborn children were given to the maternal grandmother or an aunt.(7) Traditionally, relatives and friends soaked the father with water when his firstborn child was a girl.(8) My mother is speaking with a male scribe, one I recognize as that of one of her real sons, her firstborn , my brother and nursemaid to some of my older sisters.(9) I couldn't believe it when I heard the news - he is still my firstborn son and I'm hoping for a reconciliation.(10) As a parent, Jo-Ann pondered how all their dreams and hopes for their firstborn child would never be realized.(11) She'd been a bridesmaid at their wedding, and was now a godmother of their recently-born firstborn child Jacob.(12) In southeast Angola, the practice of calling a parent after his or her firstborn child (father-of-name, mother-of-name) further create ties between the generations.(13) She asked him to view the film My Life, about a young man who is dying and making a videotape for his soon-to-be firstborn child.(14) My firstborn , a son, began to push out late the next summer.(15) They love each other in their own way, but no longer know how to express their feelings, partly because they have never recovered from the death of their firstborn child.(16) Then the firstborn child was thought to be god-begotten.
