Definition of childbirth
: the act or process of giving birth to a baby : parturition
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women who choose to undergo childbirth without the use of anesthetics and other drugs
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Tired of good ol’ Can’t Do Cincinnati making this whole process seem like childbirth.
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Legal abortions are considerably safer than childbirth.
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Considering the challenges of even fertilizing an egg, never mind the other hurdles that developing fetuses must overcome between conception and childbirth, every baby really is a miracle.
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Two days later, Jorgensen was still in the throes of childbirth.
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After childbirth and motherhood, her conditioning might be suboptimal.
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Locals had come to the tree for generations to pray for good luck, health and childbirth.
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So your searches for Lasik (on our front page search tool) must be separate from the searches for big-ticket hospital items like gall bladder operations and childbirth (on the hospital search tool).
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Yet there’s a wide spectrum of what recovery from childbirth actually looks like, in both elite and recreational athletes, and there’s no straightforward rule for when women should return to sport after having a baby.
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First Known Use of childbirth
15th century
childbirth Synonyms
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birth pang, contraction, pains;
cesarean section (or caesarean section), natural childbirth;
CHILDBIRTH Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of childbirth for English Language Learners
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: the act or process of giving birth to children
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Definition of childbirth for Students
: the act or process of giving birth to a child
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