Childbed \Child"bed\, n.
The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in
labor; parturition.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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