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childbearingchild‧bear‧ing /ˈtʃaɪldˌbeərɪŋ $ -ˌber-/ noun [uncountable]  - And these would in turn improve the circumstances of childbearing and child rearing.
- For most women, working and childbearing are alternatives, at least for a few years.
- It is clear that housing tenure is associated with major differentials in patterns of marriage and childbearing.
- Much childbearing had not impaired her beauty.
- Other research has also confirmed that women risk serious health hazards by repeated childbearing.
- The shape of families is determined by parents' decisions to start, space, and stop their childbearing.
- This should, if anything, strengthen the family and encourage childbearing.
► Birthafterbirth, nounantenatal, adjectiveartificial insemination, nounbaby blues, nounbarren, adjectivebarrier method, nounbear, verbbirth control, nounbreast-feed, verbbreech birth, nouncaesarean, nouncap, nounchildbearing, nounchildbirth, nounconceive, verbconfinement, nouncontraception, nouncontraction, nounC-section, noundeliver, verbdelivery, noundiaphragm, nounDutch cap, nounembryo, nounembryology, nouneugenics, nounfamily planning, nounfertility, nounfertility drug, nounfertilize, verbfetal, adjectivefetus, nounfoetal position, nounfoetus, nounfull-term, adjectivegestation, noungonad, nounincubator, nouninduce, verbinduction, nouninfant mortality rate, nouninfertile, adjectiveIUD, nounIVF, nounmaternal, adjectivematernity, nounmidwife, nounmidwifery, nounmilk, nounmiscarriage, nounmiscarry, verbmorning-after pill, nounmorning sickness, nounmother-to-be, nounmum-to-be, nounnatal, adjectivenatural, adjectivenatural childbirth, nounneuter, verbnurse, verbobstetrics, nounoral contraceptive, nounoviduct, nounovulate, verbovum, nounperinatal, adjectivepostnatal, adjectivepreemie, nounpregnancy, nounpregnant, adjectivepremature, adjectivepresentation, nounprocreate, verbproduce, verbquickening, nounreproduce, verbreproduction, nounreproductive, adjectiverhythm method, nounspay, verbsterile, adjectivesterilize, verbstillbirth, nounstillborn, adjectivestretch mark, nounsurrogate mother, nounswaddle, verbswaddling clothes, nountermination, nountest-tube baby, nountrimester, nounultrasound, nounumbilical cord, noununborn, adjectivewean, verbzygote, noun ► of childbearing age (=at the age when a woman can have children)· It is against the law to refuse to employ a woman of childbearing age because she may become pregnant. ► childbearing age/years- Four hundred million women of childbearing age weigh less than 45 kilograms-their malnutrition is passed on to their infants.
1the process of being pregnant and giving birth to children: the trend towards later marriage and childbearing2 childbearing age/years if a woman is of childbearing age or in her childbearing years, she is of an age when it is physically possible for her to have babies |