Childbed

2 definitions found

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

  Childbed \Child"bed\, n.
     The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in
     labor; parturition.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  childbed
       n : concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
           the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
           [syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour}, {confinement}, {lying-in},
            {travail}]