Concept cluster: Biology > Alternative birthing methods
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birth plan
n
A protocol, agreed between mother, midwives and doctors, listing options such as birth companion, position at birth, pain relief etc.
child-birth
n
Alternative form of childbirth [The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.]
childbearing
adj
Of, pertaining to, or suitable for childbirth
cross-birth
n
(medicine) A birth in which the fetus is positioned with neither the head nor the feet lying in the direction of the birth canal.
delivery
n
The act of giving birth
freebirth
n
A childbirth delivered without medical assistance or the attendance of a midwife.
home delivery
n
Homebirth.
homebirth
n
Childbirth taking place at home, rather than in a hospital.
hypnobirthing
n
The use of hypnotherapy to ease the process of childbirth.
Lamaze
n
Natural childbirth technique developed in the 1940s by French obstetrician Dr. Ferdinand Lamaze.
live birth
n
A birth in which the foetus is alive
livebirth
n
The birth of a living fetus.
maternity hospital
n
A hospital that provides assistance during childbirth.
natural birth
n
A childbirth comprising a vaginal delivery without any obstetrical procedures.
neonacy
n
(rare) The period of one's life in which one is a neonate.
para
n
(medicine) A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
parturiency
n
parturition
parturition
n
The act of giving birth; childbirth.
parturitional
adj
Concerning parturition, the act of giving birth.
primipara
n
(obstetrics, veterinary medicine, specifically) A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.
secundipara
n
A woman during or after her second pregnancy
superprecociality
n
The condition of being superprecocial
Tanner stage
n
Any of the stages of the Tanner scale.
vaginal birth
n
Birth via the vagina (as opposed to caesarean section).
water birth
n
A form of childbirth in which the mother is supported in a birthing pool so that the child is delivered into the warm water.
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