WordNet
n. a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth [syn: birth pangs, labour pains]
Wikipedia
Labor Pains (also known as Almost Pregnant in Mexico and Labour Pains in Australia) is a 2009 romantic comedy film written by Stacy Kramer and starring Lindsay Lohan, Bridgit Mendler, Luke Kirby, Chris Parnell, Cheryl Hines and Kevin Covais. The film received a television premiere on ABC Family on July 19, 2009. It was originally scheduled to be released in theatres. The film was directed by Lara Shapiro and was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on August 4 and 31 in the United States and United Kingdom, respectively.
The film drew 2.1 million viewers, a better-than-average prime-time audience for ABC Family, and per the network, was the week's top cable film among coveted female demographic groups. The film received a theatrical release in countries such as Russia, Romania, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Ecuador, and Mexico.
"Labor Pains" is the fifth episode of the 25th season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, and the 535th episode of the series. The episode was written by Don Payne and Mitchell H. Glazer and premiered on November 17, 2013, on Fox.
In the episode, after a night of playing poker with Moe, Lenny, and Carl, Homer finds himself in an elevator with a young mother named Gretchen, who is in labor and needs someone to help her keep calm. Meanwhile, Lisa helps the local football cheerleading team unionize and negotiate for better wages and working conditions.
Usage examples of "labor pains".
She tucked, bending slightly, reflex -ively, but the pain vanished as swiftly as it had comeit was only the memory of her labor pains the day her mother had told her the story of the Great Sundering, and the threat of the Aoi return.
When the canoe in which they were journeying broke up, Abraham had pushed and hauled his wife more than forty miles overland in an effort to join with the Hales at Lahaina, and this had precipitated her labor pains.
Or even an hysterical re-enactment of my wife's labor pains, which she experienced three years ago.
When her labor pains set in, she was still in the store, putting sugar into blue pound and half-pound bags.
Arell told me that certain herbs help to quiet labor pains, and that led me to Argak the herbalist.
Lord knew, he'd had to deliver babies when the women were suffering as much from embarrassment at his presence as from their labor pains.
Elizabeth, though not yet lapsed into coma, was hardly conscious of the labor pains.
Like the memory of my first night with Palmer, my wedding night and other painful times, any memory of my labor pains is long since faded.
Some midwives, for example, believed that labor pains were “.
Some midwives, for example, believed that labor pains were cut by placing a sharp knife under the bed or that a difficult delivery could be facilitated by opening chests, cupboards, windows, and doors.
When it did, Susannah felt another of those labor pains sweep through her, making her double over and groan.