Adjective
child-bearing (not comparable)
(with "years" or "age") Pertaining to the time between puberty and menopause when a woman is able to bear children.
child bearing
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. Honoré de Balzac
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age. Anna Garlin Spencer
The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb. Warren Farrell
Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm. Robert Winston
I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families. Joan Lunden
Do not abuse midwives while child-bearing continues. Swahili Proverb