childbirth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the process or event of giving birth to a baby at the end of pregnancy

   The clinic offers medical care throughout pregnancy and childbirth.

A compound of child + birth, attested in Middle English as childbyrth and related forms. It may have been reinforced by Old Norse barnburdr, literally 'child bearing.' The phrase in childbirth conventionally means during the process of giving birth.

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