parturiency

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

parturiency
    n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of
         contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for
         six hours" [syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour},
         {confinement}, {lying-in}, {travail}, {childbed}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Parturiency \Par*tu"ri*en*cy\, n.
   Parturition.
   [1913 Webster]