childbirth
/'tʃaildbə:θ/
Definition
- Noun:
- The process of giving birth to a child: The act or process of delivering a baby from the uterus of the mother. It encompasses the stages of labor and delivery.
Usage
- General Use: The term "childbirth" is a formal and medical term for the event of a baby being born. It is used in both clinical and general contexts to refer to the process itself.
- Context: Commonly used in discussions about medicine, health, parenting, and personal experiences.
Examples
- The hospital offers classes to prepare expectant parents for childbirth.
- Modern medicine has made childbirth much safer than it was in the past.
- Her childbirth was a long and difficult process.
Advanced Usage
- "Natural childbirth": A philosophy and approach to childbirth that seeks to minimize medical intervention, often involving techniques like breathing exercises and movement.
- She opted for a natural childbirth with the support of a doula.
- "Childbirth education": Classes or instruction designed to prepare parents for labor, delivery, and newborn care.
- They attended childbirth education every week during the third trimester.
Variants and Related Words
- Childbearing (noun): The fact of giving birth to children; often used to refer to the capacity or period of life during which a woman can give birth.
- The average age for childbearing has risen in recent decades.
- Parturition (noun): The formal, technical term for the act of giving birth, used in medical and biological contexts.
- The study focused on the physiology of parturition.
Synonyms
- Delivery: The act of giving birth, often used interchangeably with "childbirth" in medical settings.
- Labor: Specifically refers to the process of uterine contractions leading to childbirth.
- Confinement (archaic): An old-fashioned term for the period of childbirth.
Related Phrases
- To give birth: The verbal phrase meaning to bear a child; it is the action described by the noun "childbirth."
- She gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
- To go into labor: To begin the process of childbirth.
- She went into labor in the early hours of the morning.
Related Idioms
- To be in the family way (euphemistic, old-fashioned): To be pregnant, which precedes childbirth.
- It was announced that the duchess was in the family way.
- To have a bun in the oven (informal, humorous): To be pregnant.
- They just found out they have a bun in the oven.
Noun
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the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child
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