birthing room

noun

: a comfortably furnished hospital room where both labor and delivery take place and in which the baby usually remains during the hospital stay

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Jackson and host Violet Lucca discuss her reasons for sharing her birth story, the all too often dire experiences that black women have in the birthing room, and the multifarious sociocultural factors that prevent black women from receiving proper care even as awareness of these experiences grows. —

Naomi Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2020 Her clinic has three patient beds and a birthing room with a bare mattress, stirrups and a single IV pole. —

Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023 The modern human never seems to be far from a camera lens, even in the birthing room. —

Audrey Noble, Allure, 3 Jan. 2023 Another, still cluttered with filing cabinets, became a birthing room. —

New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022 Outside my birthing room, there were meetings going on without me—my husband was conferencing with the doctors. —

ELLE, 5 Apr. 2022 Greene was in the birthing room when Oliver was born and spent the early years changing diapers and being a dutiful dad. —

Linda Marx, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021 As soon as Sharp Grossmont nurses and her obstetrician/gynecologist left the Darlings alone in the birthing room, the masks came off both mom and dad, and copious amounts of kisses and endless embraces were given to their 7-pound girl. —

Karen Pearlman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2021 The pandemic has also restricted support workers such as doulas and midwives to limit the number of people in the birthing room. —

Brandi Morin, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2020 See More

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