homebirth
Britishnoun
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the act of giving birth to a child in one's own home
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an instance of a woman giving birth to a child at home
a large increase in homebirths
Example Sentences
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The 45-year-old was delivered by homebirth at 295 West Las Flores Drive, where he lived with his mother until this week.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025
What started as a blissful homebirth turned into an emergency run to the hospital where an epidural, heart monitors and Pitocin made possible what would have been — in long-ago days — pure tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2022
In the film, which comes to Netflix on Thursday, Kirby plays a woman grappling with the loss of her first child during a homebirth.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2021
It was mid-November and we were expecting another baby in December, and we were ecstatic about the homebirth we were planning.
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2015
For example, one U.S. study that the authors included was “Outcomes of a rural Sonoma County homebirth practice: 1976-1982,” while the other U.S.-based study focused on the years 1989-1996.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2012
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