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childbirth

[ chahyld-burth ]

noun

  1. an act or instance of bringing forth a child; parturition:

    a difficult childbirth.



childbirth

/ ˈtʃaɪldˌbɜːθ /

noun

  1. the act of giving birth to a child obstetric


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Word History and Origins

Origin of childbirth1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; child, birth

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Example Sentences

“Mothers were also less likely to request C-section for future deliveries because hypnosis lessened their fear of childbirth,” she wrote in an email.

Filmed before the pandemic at the Manhattan hospital of the same name, it follows an ER doctor, an obstetrician, and two neurosurgeons as they work with patients who are experiencing everything from cancer to TMJ disorder to childbirth.

Scott DeCarlo, list editorThere’s a concept in childbirth called “kangaroo care,” which reduces infant mortality and strengthens the bond between mother and child.

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Read more Postpartum depression is one of the most common complications of childbirth.

Wiesenfeld’s wife had died in childbirth, so he was denied benefits even though he faced all of the challenges of single parenthood that a mother would have faced.

The end of conventional childbirth might only be a matter of time.

Gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change.

They envisioned warriors lost in battle, and women who died in childbirth, as honored spirits, circling the sun like hummingbirds.

In New York City in the early 1960s, among white women, one out of four childbirth-related deaths was due to abortion.

Over at The Week, Elissa Strauss wrote that the show was evidence that “the cult of natural childbirth has gone too far.”

An hour before the woman had succumbed to the agonies of childbirth, bringing forth a still child.

Rikulúta pa siya sa panganak, She is still new to childbirth.

But, the first scene to meet his gaze was that of a woman in childbirth.

At the present, she is going through the throes of childbirth.

In this state of things, a woman was taken in childbirth, some two or three miles from the ferry.

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