childbirth

/'tʃaildbə:θ/

Thân thiện

A mother holds her newborn baby after childbirth.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child

Từ đồng nghĩa

• childbearing
• accouchement
• vaginal birth