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Childbearing

noun

The parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child. Synonyms: accouchement, childbirth, vaginal birth.

adjective

Relating to or suitable for childbirth.

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"Childbearing" Quotes from Famous Books

... easily be given a leave of absence for a few months, or for a few years; and nowhere else could the children better meet this fact of universal existence around which our Anglo-Saxon reticence has woven such a shameful conspiracy of silence. At least, when a woman has passed the period of childbearing she could bring to the school incalculable gifts of balanced judgment ...

— Woman in Modern Society • Earl Barnes

... other cases in which marriage is right and childbearing may be wrong. There are tendencies to disease, in which, although there may be a long and useful life for the one bearing a family taint, it may be socially wrong to risk carrying on that taint. If all who need to know are agreed, and there is a chance of living many years of real union together, ...

— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer

... loving Father must have looked on me with much grief. On this account, I have no doubt, the Lord now, in great compassion, sent this heavy blow. I had not seriously thought of the great danger connected with childbearing, and therefore had never earnestly prayed about it. Now came this solemn time. The life of my dear wife was hanging, as it were, on a thread, and, in the midst of it, my conscience told me, that my state ...

— A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Mueller - Written by Himself, First Part • George Mueller

... rate: This entry gives a figure for the average number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to a given fertility rate at each age. The total fertility rate is a more direct measure of the level of fertility than the crude birth rate, since it refers to births per woman. This indicator shows the potential ...

— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... with Patricia in the ensuing months. Her mother's blood told here, as Colonel Musgrave saw with disquietude. He knew the women of his race had by ordinary been unfit for childbearing; indeed, the daughters of this famous house had long, in a grim routine, perished, just as Patricia's mother had done, in their first maternal essay. There were many hideous histories the colonel could ...

— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell