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FromMiddle Englishchildbyrth [and other forms], perhaps apartial calque ofOld Norsebarnburðr(“childbearing, childbirth”, literally“bairnbirth”); equivalent tochild +‎birth. CompareSwedishbarnsbörd(“childbirth”),Icelandicbarnsburður(“childbirth”).

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childbirth (usuallyuncountable,pluralchildbirths)

  2. The fact or action ofgiving birth to a child, as the culmination ofpregnancy.
    • 2001, Ellen Gruenbaum,The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective:
      The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs followingchildbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity andchildbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.

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act of giving birth

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