Childbirth
31childbirth — n accouchement, confinement, lying in, labor, travail; bearing, childbearing, delivery, childbed, Med. eutocia, Med. dystocia; parturition, partur iency, pullulation; nativity, birth, genesis …
32childbirth — n.; see labour …
33childbirth — noun Syn: labour, delivery, birthing; archaic confinement …
34childbirth — [ˈtʃaɪldˌbɜːθ] noun [U] the process of giving birth to a baby …
35childbirth — child•birth [[t]ˈtʃaɪldˌbɜrθ[/t]] n. med an act or instance of bringing forth a child; parturition • Etymology: 1400–50 …
36childbirth — /ˈtʃaɪldbɜθ / (say chuyldberth) noun the act of giving birth to a child; parturition …
37childbirth — Hānau, hānau keiki ana, ho ohānau. See discharge …
38childbirth — See birth …
39childbirth — n. the act of giving birth to a child …
40natural childbirth — childbirth involving little or no use of drugs or anesthesia and usually involving a program in which the mother is psychologically and physically prepared for the birth process. Cf. psychoprophylaxis. [1930 35] * * * Any of the systems (e.g.,… …