Childbearing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Childbearing \Child"bear`ing\, n.
     The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
     --Milton. Addison.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  childbearing
       adj : relating to or suitable for childbirth; "of childbearing
             age"
       n : the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the
           process of giving birth to a child [syn: {childbirth}, {accouchement},
            {vaginal birth}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "childbearing":
     accouchement, bearing, birth, birth throes, birthing,
     blessed event, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery,
     genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, labor, multiparity,
     nascency, nativity, parturition, the Nativity, the stork,
     travail