| NOUN | process | natural childbirth | labor and childbirth without medical intervention |
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| Meaning | labor and childbirth without medical intervention; no drugs are given to relieve pain or aid the birth process. | |
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| Example | "natural childbirth is considered the safest for the baby" | |
| Narrower | Bradley method of childbirth, Bradley method | A method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth by providing education and exercises and nutrition and techniques of breathing and relaxation (with the assistance of the father) |
| Lamaze method of childbirth, Lamaze method | A method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth | |
| Leboyer method of childbirth, Leboyer method | A method of childbirth that tries to minimize the trauma for the newborn | |
| Read method of childbirth, Read method | A method of natural childbirth that assumes it is a normal process and that the pain is largely psychological | |
| Broader | childbirth, childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth | The parturition process in human beings |
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