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

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The new report says these institutions are also twice as likely as other hospitals to provide clinical services such as trauma centers, organ transplant centers, birthing rooms and substance use disorder care. Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 11 June 2025 By this time, hospital births had become the norm, and partners were not invited to the birthing room. Rachel Gurevich, Parents, 22 July 2024 Without an advocate in the birthing room, parents-to-be may be subjected to a lower standard of care based on misconceptions about Black bodies — the assumption that Black people have high blood pressure, for example. Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 14 May 2023 Currently, the territory has just four birthing rooms at the hospital in Iqaluit and no dedicated pediatric beds — not nearly enough to serve the increasing number of pregnancies, and mothers who would much prefer to give birth close to home. Kelly Grant/the Globe and Mail (canada), San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023 See All Example Sentences for birthing room

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First Known Use

1974, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of birthing room was in 1974

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“Birthing room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birthing%20room. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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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
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