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child-bearing
noun as in gravidity
noun as in gravidness
noun as in parturiency
noun as in pregnancy
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From October 24: In the early 1980s, there were some 29 abortions per 1,000 women of child-bearing age.
Societies that do the least to support mothers and child-bearing have more abortions.
As a general rule, societies that do the most to support mothers and child-bearing have the fewest abortions.
One of these cases was a woman of thirty, who had been married for ten years without child-bearing.
And thus have I shown how a child-bearing woman ought to govern herself each month during her pregnancy.
What are the causes or favouring circumstances bringing about this abnormal child-bearing?
It may occur at any period of child-bearing life, but is much more frequent at the beginning and the end of this term.
Oh, Jack, fancy a woman who had never known what child-bearing meant attempting to describe it!
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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to child-bearing, such as: fertilization, germination, gestation, gravidness, impregnation, and parturiency.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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