1) Accouchement 2) Calving 3) Childbearing 4) Childbed 5) Childbirth 6) Confinement 7) Farrow 8) Farrowing 9) Hatch 10) Hatching 11) Labor 12) Laying 13) Parturiency 14) Parturition 15) Puerperal 16) Travail 1) Biological process 2) Birth 3) Giving birth 4) Having to do with birth 5) Organic process 6) Parturition 7) The process of giving birth 
• (n.) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.
Birth'ing noun (Nautical) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey. 
Type: Term Pronunciation: ber′thing Definitions: 1. Parturition; the act of giving birth.
[adj] - having to do with birth
See kindling
an act or instance of giving birth, esp. by natural childbirth.