Kate met and married Oscar Chopin in 1870. In her diary, she recorded consummating their marriage on June 12th. Over the next 6 years, Kate gave birth to 6 children between September 1873 and December 1879, with a physician attending each birth. Maternal death is defined as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of terminating a pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, irrespective of duration or location of the pregnancy.