Childbirth
71National Childbirth Trust — National Child|birth Trust, the NCT a British organization that provides advice and information to women who are going to have babies. It supports women who want to give birth naturally, without the use of drugs, and it encourages new mothers to… …
72Goddess of Childbirth and Prophecy — Carmenta, Juno Lucina, and Postverta …
73Patron Saint of Childbirth — Gerard Majella …
74natural childbirth — noun (U) a method of giving birth to a baby in which a woman chooses not to use drugs …
75natural childbirth — UK / US noun [uncountable] a method of having a baby without using drugs to deal with the pain and without having a caesarian (= an operation to get the baby out) …
76lying in — Childbirth …
77Parturition — Childbirth, the process of delivering the baby and placenta from the uterus to the vagina to the outside world. Also called labor and delivery. Parturition comes from the Latin parturire, to be ready to bear young and is related to partus, the… …
78accouchement — Childbirth, particularly parturition. SEE ALSO: birth. [Fr. from coucher, to lie down] a. forcé (for sa′) forced, artificially hastened delivery, by means of forceps, version, etc.; originally applied to rapid dilation of the cervix with the… …
79drive-through delivery — childbirth after which the mother has a very brief hospital stay. Also called drive by delivery. [1990 95] * * * …
80Labor — Childbirth, the aptly named experience of delivering the baby and placenta from the uterus to the vagina to the outside world. There are two stages of labor. During the first stage (called the stage of dilatation), the cervix dilates fully to a… …