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maternity

Maternity is a relation between a mother and her child. A maternity ward is a place in a hospital where children are born.

maternity

(= motherhood) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother (= pregnancy) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus (= motherliness) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children

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Simple sentences

Did you give birth at home or at a maternity hospital?
Mary is on maternity leave.
After her maternity leave, she resumed her old job.
She will start her maternity leave next week.
Mary took maternity leave.
Paid maternity leave is a benefit available in almost all countries, except the United States.

Movie subtitles

It's not too late to consider a hospital delivery, Mrs Antoine, or the maternity home.
According to your notes, you've still not decided whether to give birth in hospital, the maternity home, or your own bed.
No, I'd be a lot happier if you went to the maternity home as soon as you go into labour.
Isn't it about time you was fixin' yourself maternity dresses, Eula gal?
I'm running a submarine, not a maternity ward!
The minute we arrive in Moscow. we must get on the waiting list. for the People's Maternity Ward. and the People's Obstetrician.
They have some marvy maternity clothes. at Christian Dior's.
This is an offence to the most sacred function of maternity: breastfeeding.
What are you doing? This one goes to the maternity section.
I'm taking the wife to the maternity ward and I'm all scared.
She is on maternity Holles Street.
Stenotypist, with 9 paid holidays, cost of living escalation and free maternity care.
In the maternity centre run by the foreigners.
Have you been to the maternity centre? I'm on my way back from there.
The maternity hospital.
Maternity hospital?
Well, if he wasn't crazy, he wouldn't go to the maternity hospital, would he?
He's not in the maternity hospital.
I had 3000 maternity cards announcing the birth of a baby girl.
It was in the South Pacific, and it wasn't the maternity ward.
You know how dangerous maternity wards are.
Next stop, the maternity ward!
Is this the maternity ward?
I'll come wearing my maternity dress.
You have your baby in some out-of-the-way maternity home.
I got a maternity case in a Rolls Royce three blocks up.
How do you like our maternity ward?
And expenses for her maternity.
They know of the death benefits, they know of the maternity benefits.
Took my friend to the maternity home.
The child of Pierre Gasperi and Catherine Aigroz came to life at 8 a.m., at the maternity hospital of Port-Royal boulevard.
Or in the maternity ward!
Well, Bones, all I can suggest is you open up a maternity ward.
I hope your aunt doesn't think that's a maternity dress.
She'll use her maternity leave to finish her thesis.
As it's the Day of the Dog. you ought to wear a red and white maternity corset.
The maternity wards. Nothing left but ashes.
He left me in the maternity home and dropped me there and then.

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Linking social-welfare benefits to participation in the workforce, training, or active labor-market programs also can help, as can affordable, high-quality childcare and greater opportunities for paternity and maternity leave.
These differences are extraordinary, particularly in view of the far less generous maternity leave policies that apply in the US and the UK relative to continental Europe.
Maternity and paternity leave should be increased where it is low, such as in the United States.
Indeed, virtually every developing country in the world is ahead of the US in at least requiring paid maternity leave.

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