childbearing

3 definitions • 5 examples

the process or fact of having babies:

Delayed childbearing, smaller families, and careers for women are increasingly becoming the norm.

How does childbearing affect women's incomes?

relating to the time in her life when a woman is able to have babies:

childbearing age The survey is only concerned with women of childbearing age.

childbearing years The procedure could allow women to conceive past their normal childbearing years.

of or relating to the process of a woman becoming pregnant and giving birth to a baby:

women of childbearing age