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

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

Soon they were a couple, and then Kelly was born, and her father, who fainted with anxiety in the birthing room, adored her, and she adored him back.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2017

When they told Jaime he was not allowed in the birthing room, he smiled and asked which of them proposed to keep him out.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin