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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
childbearing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Childbearing

Childbearing \Child"bear`ing\, n. The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
--Milton. Addison.

Wiktionary
childbearing

a. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for childbirth n. The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition

WordNet
childbearing
  1. adj. relating to or suitable for childbirth; "of childbearing age"

  2. n. the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child [syn: childbirth, accouchement, vaginal birth]

Usage examples of "childbearing".

She looked curiously at an announcement of a midwifery class, and realized how much she took for granted that childbearing was a simple matter.

The latter proved a strikingly voluptuous woman of large hips, breasts and wide pink nipples, belly scored by childbearing above lush pubic hair.

A superstition really, but since Yana, before conceiving, had thought herself well past childbearing age, it seemed wise to encourage every sort of good luck.

Now faded green-and-gold paint striped her human torso, even her breasts, which sagged as did those of crones well past their childbearing years.

Her childbearing made her a goddess, the basis for fertility cults throughout the Near East.

Capacious childbearing hips, bones ripe for hauling in wheat and barley.

Thus he knew that his mother had always cared for his younger brother more than himand how not, when he had been her first experience of the humiliating sickness of pregnancy, the agony and travail of childbearing, and the pesky, persistent labor of looking after infant, toddler, No and Why!

By the time a female had reached childbearing age, she knew her place in the society and would never dream of challenging the existing order of things.

Nine more stood behind them, and then another row of nine, with the children and the childbearing women huddled in the middle.

Whoever had the childbearing power, Torlyri thought, owed it to the tribe to be hatching an unborn of her own.

A little while later the shy and stolid young warrior Praheurt asked to be one of them, and then Shatalgit, a woman just entering childbearing age, who all too obviously was hoping to mate herself with Praheurt.

Even though she had risked a belated childbearing, of which she had nearly died, she had borne only sons.

Then she'd agree, cheerfully adding varicosity, slacked breast and vaginal sphincter, striation of buttock and thigh, and loss of hair-sheen to the list of her biological expenses in the childbearing way -- all which she counted as nothing, since for three such princelets she'd've died thrice over.

What he thought about sexual dimorphism was mostly charitable compassion for the nasty predicaments females found themselves in every month, and the even worse ones that confronted them in childbearing.