confinement

Noun

• the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
  • the restriction of the infection to a focal area
    

• the state of being confined
  • he was held in confinement
    

• the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them

• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
  • she was in labor for six hours
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  restriction , parturiency , labor , labour , lying-in , travail , childbed