as in childbirth
the act or process of giving birth to children
in olden days many women died in childbearing
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Recent Examples of childbearing
Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Experts suspect rising obesity and alcohol use, reductions in exercise, and changes in childbearing may help explain the rise in cases.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Yet, Gui uncovers an intimate connection with the evil spirit, which embodies Yishui’s deepest pain about childbearing.
—Jenny S. Li, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Helping people achieve their childbearing goals means coming up with holistic solutions that improve people's lives, such as making housing more affordable and tackling student loan debt.
—Karen Benjamin Guzzo, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Menopause typically occurs between ages 45 and 55 but research indicates that race, ethnicity, reproductive and childbearing history, and socioeconomic status can all impact symptom severity and onset.
—Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Deanna Taylor, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
Many of them were young women, either pregnant or of childbearing age, when the bombs fell and have lived much of their lives under a heavy shadow of fear and stigma.
—Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
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Rising rates of obesity and alcohol use, along with changes in childbearing and menopause patterns, may also contribute to the steady increase.
—Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Experts suspect rising obesity and alcohol use, reductions in exercise, and changes in childbearing may help explain the rise in cases.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Yet, Gui uncovers an intimate connection with the evil spirit, which embodies Yishui’s deepest pain about childbearing.
—Jenny S. Li, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Helping people achieve their childbearing goals means coming up with holistic solutions that improve people's lives, such as making housing more affordable and tackling student loan debt.
—Karen Benjamin Guzzo, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Menopause typically occurs between ages 45 and 55 but research indicates that race, ethnicity, reproductive and childbearing history, and socioeconomic status can all impact symptom severity and onset.
—Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
In the United Kingdom, there is a midwife assigned to every childbearing individual, regardless of the risk status of the pregnancy.
—Deanna Taylor, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
Many of them were young women, either pregnant or of childbearing age, when the bombs fell and have lived much of their lives under a heavy shadow of fear and stigma.
—Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for childbearing
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One dish that is particularly meaningful to her is miyeok guk, a seaweed soup traditionally eaten by women after childbirth.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Oct. 2025
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How Superstitions Impact Modern Life and Pregnacy Pregnancy and childbirth are major life changes, and with that may come feelings of nervousness, excitement, even fear—and some of these feelings could present themselves as superstitions.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
23 Oct. 2025
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Setareh notes that reproductive history is also key here and that women who experienced early menopause, gestational hypertension and preeclampsia should consider this test, too, because these conditions all increase their risk for heart disease.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
17 Oct. 2025
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Instead the gestational environment starts shaping fetuses’ brain processing even before birth.—
Meghie Rodrigues,
Scientific American,
7 Oct. 2025
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However, Edward has been including items like prenatal vitamins in Ellen’s discretionary spending, which Sethi strongly disagreed with.—
Kamaron McNair,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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Dozens of people have sued Johnson & Johnson, generic manufacturers and major retailers alleging developmental injuries such as autism and ADHD due to mothers' prenatal use of acetaminophen.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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Their indie folk band, The Hypsonics, released a gold record 12 years earlier, but just as their collective music career was about to take flight, Jennifer became pregnant with their now 12-year-old daughter, Stevie (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport).—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Nov. 2025
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Medullary bone is temporary tissue that forms inside a cavity in long bones of birds and dinosaurs to provide calcium for eggshells, and was previously used in research to identify a pregnant Tyrannosaurus rex in 2016.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Childbearing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/childbearing. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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