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birthing room

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birthing room
n.
An area of a hospital or outpatient medical facility equipped for labor, delivery, and recovery and designed as a natural, homelike environment. See Regional Note at birth.


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She and I went to the birthing room while my husband and the boys registered me.
When Antonio takes the baby back into the birthing room, Ione gives him a withering look--presumably for leaving her alone after the labor while he cared for the newborn; her scorn further accentuates her self-centered nature and renders alien the sacrificial tendencies traditionally associated with motherhood.
Wolf takes on the myth of the "nurse-midwife services" that have become all the rage in private hospitals by revealing that an alternative birthing room at her D.
 
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