WordNet
n. a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth [syn: birth pangs, labor pains]
Usage examples of "labour pains".
And it was to make potions to ease the labour pains and the pains of the women in their courses that she was picking herbs in the woods when I first saw her.
How much does my hypocritical, hypothetical husband get paid for each set of my labour pains and one smelly baby?
The gynaecologist had been right, her labour pains had started just three days after her visit.
Crippled by her labour pains, Faraday then entered the Sacred Groves to bear Isfrael.
The nun suddenly gets labour pains and is helped to the fire where she lies down and screams the names of saints, political leaders and frozen food products.
It is also useful in accelerating parturition, when the labour pains of women have come on.