birthing
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of birthing
Example Sentences
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Doctors at St. Louis-based Mercy, which runs birthing hospitals in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, began noticing an uptick in families turning down the vitamin K shot during the pandemic.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
The city is ever-evolving, the past giving way to the future, birthing new guises and blurring the old.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
I see her death as a profound failure of the systems meant to protect birthing mothers.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2026
It also honored pop’s past while birthing its future.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
The whole birthing center felt tropically humid, even though it was forty degrees outside.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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