| 单词 | natural childbirth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnatural childbirth natural childbirth n. childbirth in which the mother-to-be uses methods of relaxation and physical cooperation with the natural process of childbirth (advocated by G. D. Read in 1933); (now also) childbirth with minimal medical or technological intervention; a birth of this kind. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery teamOE childinga1275 birtha1325 childc1330 deliverancea1375 childbearinga1400 kindlinga1400 birth-bearingc1426 forthbringing1429 childbirth?a1450 parturitya1450 bearinga1500 delivery1548 parture1588 infantment1597 puerpery1602 exclusion1646 parturition1646 venter1657 outbirth1691 clecking1815 parturience1822 birthing1928 natural childbirth1933 1933 G. D. Read (title) Natural childbirth. 1960 Guardian 6 July 5/1 There are still many doctors and hospitals which do little or nothing to teach expectant mothers about the various methods of ‘natural childbirth’. 1964 W. Markfield To Early Grave (1965) x. 181 Inez, six and a half months gone, was at a natural childbirth class. 1974 ‘E. Lathen’ Sweet & Low vii. 76 It was not easy..to become an instant swinger after ten years..of natural childbirth. 1996 H. Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1997) 70 She'd been telling everyone for months it was going to be a natural childbirth and, ten minutes in, she cracked and started yelling, ‘Give me the drugs, you fat cow.’ < as lemmas |
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