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• childbirth —    Childbirth and its management have been subject to radically different arguments since the 1960s, with one argument coming from the medical community and a second coming from women. The principal source of controversy has been the issue of… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

• Childbirth Connection — Childbirth Connection, formerly known as the Maternity Center Association, is an American national nonprofit organization that works to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy, and policy. Childbirth Connection …   Wikipedia

• Childbirth — Child birth, n. The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• childbirth — index birth (emergence of young) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• childbirth — mid 15c., from CHILD (Cf. child) + BIRTH (Cf. birth) …   Etymology dictionary

• childbirth — [n] giving birth accouchement, bearing children, blessed event*, childbed, confinement, delivering, delivery, labor, lyingin, nativity, parturience, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, visit from the stork*;… …   New thesaurus

• childbirth — ► NOUN ▪ the action of giving birth to a child …   English terms dictionary

• childbirth — [chīld′bʉrth΄] n. the act of giving birth to a child …   English World dictionary

• Childbirth — Parturition redirects here. For the Voyager episode, see Parturition (Star Trek: Voyager). Childbirth (also called labor, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more… …   Wikipedia

• Childbirth and obstetrics in antiquity — Traditionally obstetrics is defined as the surgical specialty dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, although in Antiquity surgical intervention did not exist. Without the presence of… …   Wikipedia

• Childbirth positions — The term childbirth positions (or maternal birthing position )[1] refers to the various physical postures the pregnant mother may assume during the process of childbirth. They may also be referred to as delivery positions or labor positions. In… …   Wikipedia