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Princeton's WordNet

  1. parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbednoun

    concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

    "she was in labor for six hours"

Wiktionary

  1. lying-innoun

    The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement.

  2. lying-inadjective

    of, or relating to childbirth

Wikipedia

  1. Lying-in

    Lying-in is the term given to the European forms of postpartum confinement, the traditional practice involving long bed rest before and after giving birth. The term and the practice it describes are old-fashioned or archaic, but it used to be considered an essential component of the postpartum period, even if there were no medical complications during childbirth.

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  1. lying-in

    Lying-in refers to the period of rest or recuperation for a woman after childbirth. This term is traditionally used to describe the period where a mother would rest for a certain amount of days or weeks after giving birth to recover from the physical exertion of childbirth. It can also be used to refer to the facilities or places (like a maternity hospital) where women are cared for during this period.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lying-innoun

    the state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement

  2. Lying-innoun

    the act of bearing a child

Wikidata

  1. Lying-in

    Lying-in is an old childbirth practice involving a woman resting in bed for a period after giving birth. Though the term is now usually defined as "the condition of a woman in the process of giving birth," it previously referred to a period of bed rest required even if there were no medical complications. A 1932 publication refers to lying-in as ranging from 2 weeks to 2 months. It also does not suggest "Getting Up" for at least nine days and ideally for 20 days. When lying-in was a more common term, it was used in the names of several hospitals. For example, the Royal Women’s Hospital in Australia was originally known as the "Melbourne Lying-In Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases of Women and Children". Women received congratulatory visits from friends and family during the period, and among many traditional customs around the world the desco da parto was a special form of painted tray presented to the mother in Renaissance Florence.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lying-in in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lying-in in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of lying-in in a Sentence

  1. Allen Ginsberg:

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

  2. AiR:

    We don’t realize that even the chair and the table lying in front of us are made up of molecules and atoms that are moving with life.

  3. Viola Fletcher:

    I will never forget the violence of the White mob when we left our home. I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams. I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I can not.

  4. Benny Gantz:

    When I was lying in the muddy trenches with my soldiers during freezing winter nights, you, Benjamin Netanyahu, left Israel in order to learn English and practice it at fancy cocktail parties.

  5. Vasiliy Tsvigun:

    They took away a new harvester, which was recently delivered to us. They took away the sowing complex, a large and expensive machine. And they overturned one of the tractors, driving around drunk. Now it's lying in a ditch.


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