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Meaning childbed meaning

What does childbed mean?

— noun (= labor, labour) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child she was in labor for six hours

What other words have the same or similar meaning as childbed?

confinement travail lying-in labor puerperium parturiency labour accouchement postnatal pains of childbirth delivery childbirth birth

What do people use childbed to talk about?

What words refer to the event of giving birth?

birth childbirth birthing childbed parturition nativity