giving birth

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Noun

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giving birth - the process of giving birth birthing, parturition, birthbrooding, incubation - sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the bodycalving - giving birth to a calfaccouchement, childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth - the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a childfarrow, farrowing - the production of a litter of pigshatch, hatching - the production of young from an eggegg laying, laying - the production of eggs (especially in birds)biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organismsreproduction - the process of generating offspringchildbed, confinement, lying-in, parturiency, travail, labour, labor - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"