CHILDBIRTH

Childbirth

Childbirth, labor, delivery, birth, partus, or parturition is the culmination of a period of pregnancy with the expulsion of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and birth of the infant, and birth of the placenta.

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childbirth

Noun

  1. The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.


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