birthing room

American  

noun

1. a section of a hospital or an outpatient facility set aside and equipped for childbirth and usually simulating a home environment in which family members or friends may be present during the delivery.

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Example Sentences

Her clinic has three patient beds and a birthing room with a bare mattress, stirrups and a single IV pole.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2023

One room had been the birthing room, I was told, and I sat in that room writing towards the bright new world I am always trying to write into.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

Yet, White Fang is very maternal and scraped out all the geraniums and irrigation tubing to create her nice birthing room in hopes of decorating it with fur-ball Siberian huskies.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2019

Temilade has been in business here so long that two of the women here today were born in the facility, which has a birthing room with two beds.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 12, 2018

Inside the birthing room, nature was taking its course.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood