2.6.3 Birth

Use this domain for words related to giving birth and being born.

OMC Codes: 
163 Birth Statistics
840 Reproduction
841 Menstruation
844 Childbirth
846 Postnatal Care
Louw Nida Codes: 
23C Birth, Procreation
  • What words refer to a mother giving birth?
    have a baby, give birth, become a mother, bear a child, deliver, hatch,
  • What words refer to a baby being born?
    be born, birth, arrive, arrival, come along, come into the world,
  • What words refer to the event of giving birth?
    birth, childbirth, birthing, childbed, parturition, nativity,
  • What are the steps or stages in giving birth?
    labor, birth, first breath, tie the umbilical cord, cut the umbilical cord,
  • What words refer to what is done for the baby?
    wash (the baby), anoint, swaddle (wrap in cloth),
  • What words describe something to do with birth?
    maternity, postnatal,
  • What words refer to the entire process of producing a baby?
    reproduce, breed, reproduction,
  • What words refer to having your first baby?
    start a family,

    • 2.6.3.1 Pregnancy

    Use this domain for words related to being pregnant.

    OMC Codes: 
    843 Pregnancy
    842 Conception
  • What words refer to a man causing a woman to become pregnant?
    beget, begetting, begotten, impregnate, get (her) pregnant, father (v) a child, procreate, procreation, reproduce, sire, engender, generate,
  • What words refer to a woman becoming pregnant?
    conceive, conception, become pregnant
  • What words refer to a woman being pregnant?
    be pregnant, be going to have a baby, be having a baby, be expecting, bear, carry, carry to term,
  • What words describe a woman who is pregnant?
    pregnant, big as a house, expectant, expecting,
  • What words refer to the time period when a woman is pregnant?
    pregnancy, gestation period, term, full term, trimester, antenatal, prenatal,
  • What words refer to what a baby does?
    kick, turn, drop,
  • What words refer to the part from the father and the part from the mother that make a baby?
    egg, sperm, gamete, ovum, gene,

    • 2.6.3.2 Fetus

    Use this domain for words related to a fetus--a baby that has not been born yet.

  • What words refer to an unborn baby?
    unborn child, unborn baby, fetus, embryo,
  • What words refer to the parts that surround a baby and connect it to its mother's womb?
    umbilical cord, placenta, placental, sack, fluid, afterbirth,

    • 2.6.3.3 Miscarriage

    Use this domain for words related to the prevention or termination of a pregnancy, and for words related to killing babies.

    OMC Codes: 
    847 Abortion and Infanticide
    168 Population Policy
  • What words refer to preventing pregnancy?
    birth control, family planning, contraception, sterilize, sterilization, vasectomy,
  • What things are used to prevent pregnancy?
    contraceptive, condom, the pill,
  • What words refer to a baby dying before birth?
    lose the baby, miscarry, have a miscarriage, stillborn, stillbirth
  • What words refer to killing a baby before birth?
    abortion, abort, have an abortion, terminate a pregnancy,
  • What words refer to killing a baby after birth?
    infanticide

    • 2.6.3.4 Labor and birth pains

    Use this domain for words related to labor and birth pains.

  • What general words refer to the process leading up to birth?
    labor
  • What words refer to the feelings a woman has when she thinks she is beginning to go into labor?
    false labor, early labor
  • What are the signs that a woman is going into labor?
    break the waters
  • What words refer to the contractions of the muscles of the uterus?
    contraction, push, bear down
  • What words refer to labor pains?
    labor pains, birth pain, birth pangs, throe,
  • What do women do while suffering birth pains?
    groan, cry out

    • 2.6.3.5 Help to give birth

    Use this domain for words related to helping a woman to give birth.

  • What words refer to giving help to a woman who is giving birth?
    deliver, delivery, help to give birth, midwifery, obstetrics,
  • What words refer to a doctor operating on a woman to deliver a baby?
    Caesarean,
  • What words refer to a person who helps to give birth?
    midwife, obstetrician
  • What materials and instruments are used by obstetricians and midwives?
    knife, clamp, forceps, incubator,

    • 2.6.3.6 Unusual birth

    Use this domain for words related to an unusual birth.

    Related domains: 
    2.5.4.5 Birth defect
    OMC Codes: 
    845 Difficult and Unusual Births
  • What words refer to giving birth early?
    be premature
  • What words refer to a difficult birth?
    difficult birth, hard labor
  • What words refer to a mother who dies while giving birth?
    die in childbirth

    • 2.6.3.7 Multiple births

    Use this domain for words related to multiple births--when a woman give birth to more than one baby at the same time.

  • What words refer to the number of babies born at the same time?
    single birth, twins, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets

    • 2.6.3.8 Fertile, infertile

    Use this domain for words related to being unable to have children.

  • What words refer to having many children?
    fertile, breed, multiply, propagate, have many children, have a big family, fecund, fecundity, prolific,
  • What words refer to being able to have children?
    fertile, be able to have children, fertility,
  • What words refer to being unable to have children?
    be unable to have children, infertile, sterile, barren, childless, sterility, unfruitful, impotence, impotent, infertility,

    • 2.6.3.9 Birth ceremony

    Use this domain for words related to a birth ceremony.

    OMC Codes: 
    852 Ceremonial During Infancy and Childhood
    851 Social Placement
  • What words refer to a ceremony celebrating a child's birth?
    birth ceremony, christening, naming ceremony, baptism
  • What words refer to the day a person was born?
    birthday
  • What words refer to a yearly celebration of a person's birth?
    birthday party