lying-in
Post-delivery bed rest
Lying-in is the period of confinement during and after childbirth, when a woman remains in bed to recover.
The term is old-fashioned, from an era when extended bed rest after delivery was standard practice.
A lying-in hospital was a maternity hospital.
The plural is lyings-in.
Strenuous effort; also childbirth
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- birthComing into the world
- parturitionAct of giving birth
- contractionsShortened word forms
midwife · obstetrics · confinement · travail · childbed · accouchement · birthing · dilation
Regaining what was lost
- convalescencePost-illness healing phase
- recuperationGradual return to health
- bedrestPrescribed horizontal recovery
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
rest · healing · postpartum · churching · quarantine · housebound · puerperal · postnatal
Very young child
- nurseryRoom for infants
- swaddlingWrapping babies snugly
- bassinetPortable infant bed
- cribSmall bed with rails
layette · cradle · nappies · diapers · feeding · suckling · colic · pacifier
State of being a female parent
- caregivingAttending to dependents
- bondingForming close connections
- attachmentConnection or fondness
- cradlingHolding tenderly, protectively
soothing · cuddling · tenderness · nourishment · wet-nurse · nursing · affection · protection
labor
Strenuous effort; also childbirth
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- birthComing into the world
- parturitionAct of giving birth
contractions · midwife · obstetrics · confinement · travail · childbed · accouchement · birthing · dilation · cesarean
recovery
Regaining what was lost
- convalescencePost-illness healing phase
- recuperationGradual return to health
- bedrestPrescribed horizontal recovery
seclusion · rest · healing · postpartum · churching · quarantine · housebound · puerperal · postnatal · restoration
infant
Very young child
crib · layette · cradle · nappies · diapers · feeding · suckling · colic · pacifier · burping
motherhood
State of being a female parent
- caregivingAttending to dependents
- bondingForming close connections
- attachmentConnection or fondness
cradling · soothing · cuddling · tenderness · nourishment · wet-nurse · nursing · affection · protection · coddling
- Euphemismspass away, passed away, passed on, expecting, with child
- postpartumafterpains, involution, uterine contractions, lactation, milk production
- historical obstetricsmidwife, midwifery, midwives, childbirth, obstetrics
- childbirthcontractions, labor, pushing, dilation, birth
lying-inantepartum
Before childbirth occurs
labor · delivery · parturition · pregnancy · gestation
lying-ingetting up
Transition from prone to standing
rising · churching · active recovery · mobilization · ambulation