childbearing

3 definitions found

childbearing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Childbearing \Child"bear`ing\, n.
     The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
     --Milton. Addison.
     [1913 Webster]

childbearing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  childbearing
      adj 1: relating to or suitable for childbirth; "of childbearing
             age"
      n 1: the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the
           process of giving birth to a child [syn: childbirth,
           childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth]

childbearing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "childbearing":
     accouchement, bearing, birth, birth throes, birthing,
     blessed event, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery,
     genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, labor, multiparity,
     nascency, nativity, parturition, the Nativity, the stork,
     travail