Hypertext Webster Gateway: "childbed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Childbed \Child"bed\, n.
The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in
labor; parturition.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
childbed
n : concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour}, {confinement}, {lying-in},
{travail}]
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