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Childbearing   /tʃˈaɪldbˌɛrɪŋ/   Listen
Childbearing

noun
1.
The parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child.  Synonyms: accouchement, childbirth, vaginal birth.





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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


Words linked to "Childbearing" :   alternative birthing, giving birth, childbirth, birth, active birth, alternative birth, birthing, delivery, parturition, obstetrical delivery, natural childbirth


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