childbearing

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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}]

from The 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]

from 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

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