birth plann.
/ˈbəːθ plan/, U.S. /ˈbərθ ˌplæn/ 1. Any of various proposals for regulating the number of births in a particular country or region, typically as a means of controlling population growth. Now chiefly historical.
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1957 Chicago Defender 16 Sept. 2 Telling failure of red birth plan.... Strenuous communist efforts to increase birth rates in Eastern Europe ‘have little effect’.
1967 Washington Post 5 Jan. a9 (heading) India notes setback in birth plan.
2006 China Jrnl. (Austral. National Univ.) No. 56. 73 One of their female relatives became pregnant outside the official birth plan, and wanted to adopt the child out if it was a girl and keep the child if it was a boy.
2. A plan written by a pregnant woman which sets out in advance her preferences for labour, including choice of birth setting, pain relief, etc.
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1980 D. Young & C. Mahan Unnecessary Cesareans 20 Have your preferences for birth and postpartum written on your medical chart, and include your birth plan in your medical records.
1994 Pract. Parenting July 15/1 I read so much about natural childbirth that it became my dream, and I wrote in my birth plan that I wanted to have my baby as naturally as possible.
2012 P. Druckerman Bringing up Bébé ii. 29 This woman's birth plan also specified that both of her parents should be allowed in the delivery room.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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