childbed

Noun

Meaning

The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

labour travail labor confinement lying-in parturiency nativity coat stork birth delivery baby propagation coating childbirth

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Antonyms

death unemployment endless sleep death of a thousand cuts lingchi slow slicing

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Hypernyms

birth birthing parturition giving birth

Hyponyms

premature labor premature labour

Examples

she was in labor for six hours Source: Internet

Although the delivery seemed to go well initially, the placenta broke apart during the birth and became infected; puerperal (childbed) fever was a common and often fatal occurrence in the eighteenth century. Source: Internet

In the 1800s Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that women giving birth at home had a much lower incidence of childbed fever than those giving birth by physicians in lying-hospitals. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

childbearer childbearing childbearing potential childbed fever childbirth childbirth assistant