blessed event

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

blessed event
    n 1: the live birth of a child [syn: {blessed event}, {happy
         event}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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