live birth
Baby emerges breathing
Live birth refers to the complete expulsion or extraction of a baby from its mother, where the infant shows signs of life—breathing, heartbeat, or voluntary movement—regardless of how long the pregnancy lasted.
The term distinguishes from stillbirth, where no such signs occur.
Medical and legal contexts use live birth for vital statistics and determining legal personhood: The hospital recorded 847 live births last year.
- viviparousBearing live young
- gestationCarrying offspring in womb
- full termEntire gestation period
- due dateWhen payment is required
- pretermBefore expected arrival
delivery · water breaking · mammals · placenta · neonatal care · cesarean delivery · first breath · it's a girl · Apgar score · skin to skin · labor · labor pains · postpartum · parturition · fetus · contractions · accouchement · marsupium
- mammal evolutionearly mammals, fossil record, diversification, human evolution, Australopithecus
- Maternity Wardmaternity ward, labor and delivery, delivery room, labor room, midwife
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
- reproductionreproduction, baby, egg, sperm, pregnancy
- mammal traitsfur, hair, mammary glands, milk production, milk
- childbirthcontractions, labor, pushing, dilation, crowning
live birthstillbirth
Late-term pregnancy loss
miscarriage · fetal demise · pregnancy loss · induced abortion · ectopic pregnancy
live, birth, alive, living, livelihood, live-bearing, livened