Childbirth

Quick meaning: Childbirth is a noun meaning The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy; the process by which it happens.

Meaning

The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy; the process by which it happens.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: labour, delivery (the moment of emergence)

The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.

Word Forms

• childbirths
• child-birth

Synonyms for childbirth

Depending on context, synonyms include parturition, labour, delivery, childbearing, accouchement.

Antonyms for childbirth

Common opposites include death.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include accouchement, childbearing, parturition, postnatal, postpartum, post-partum.

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