birth

[bərth]

(biology)

The emergence of a new individual from the body of its parent.

What does it mean when you dream about birth?

Dreams of oneself or others giving birth most obviously relate to actual physical birth. Pregnant women and the husbands of pregnant women often dream about strange or difficult births (e.g., giving birth to puppies). This merely reflects anxiety about the birth process and should not be taken as indicating a difficult birth or a deformed child. Birth can also symbolize the beginning of a new idea or project. It also often represents the beginning of a new stage of life, in which one feels “reborn” in some sense.

Birth

(dreams)

Women who are pregnant and men who are going to be fathers commonly have dreams about giving birth. It is not an omen of anything to come, but simply the mind trying to cope with a significant anxiety-provoking event. If you or your mate is not pregnant, this dream could symbolize new beginnings (i. e., giving birth to new ideas, new ways of living, or a new stage in life). Superstition-based dream interpretations say that giving birth in a dream is a sign of good luck, while multiple births are omens of forthcoming material wealth.

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References in periodicals archive

The location of pain in childbirth: natural childbirth and the transformation of obstetrics.

From expectation to experience: humanizing childbirth in the Brazilian National Health System/Da expectativa a experiencia: humanizagao do parto no Sistema Unico de Saude/De la expectativa a la experiencia: humanizacion del parto en el Sistema Brasileno de Salud

It will help in maintaining good blood circulation in the body and will also help in improving your stamina for natural childbirth.

Having a baby past 35? Here's what you should know

Proponents of natural childbirth frown on the use of epidurals--which deadens sensation in a woman's lower body by means of medication injected into the spinal cord.

What to expect: why aren't we talking about the surprising number of women injured by childbirth?

There, she helped spread the word about natural childbirth and home births, and ran pre-natal classes.

It's a privilege to bring babies into the world; Janet Tansley calls the midwife Marguerite Herr, who cycled round Liverpool in the '50s and '60s

She tracks the rise of "naturalism" and the pressure mothers face around practices like natural childbirth, co-sleeping, "on-demand breast-feeding for as long as the child wants" and staying "by his side until the age of three to optimize his development."

The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

His thorough, sometimes-graphic research on the topics of natural childbirth, artificial insemination of sows, vaccination, and climate change is not for those with a weak constitution.

All Natural: A Skeptic's Quest to Discover If the Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing, and the Environment Really Keeps Us Healthier and Happier

A disarming example of documentary filmmaking that stakes out an opinion with plain-spoken, commonsensical wisdom, this insightful effort from helmers Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore doubles as a defense of natural childbirth and an affectionate look back at the movement's '70s countercultural roots.

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin & the Farm Midwives

The stories, and the author's analyses, are grouped in sections on planned hospital natural childbirth, planned spinal labor analgesia, deferred epidural decisions, planned cesarean delivery, vaginal birth after cesarean, and out-of-hospital birth.

Childbirth in a technocratic age; the documentation of women's expectations and experiences

Now in a significantly updated and expanded second edition, "Unassisted Childbirth" by author and natural childbirth consultant Laura Kaplan Shanley lays out a persuasively document case advocating childbirth practices and approaches that do not rely on doctors and medical technology, with the surprising result in an inherently safe and relatively painless delivery.

The Health/Medicine Shelf

Natural childbirth may be painful, but at least it is just that - natural and surely it should be the first choice for most women.

C-section should be last resort for mum; LETTERS

Many women joined with influential groups such as Our Bodies Ourselves, and women such as Ina May Gaskin, who opened a midwifery and birth center in 1971 and continues to teach natural childbirth; more than 2,600 babies have been born at her center.

Homebirth: the ultimate do-it-yourself

The tragedy is that our maternity services are in such a state that many women are being forced to choose a major operation over natural childbirth.

A mother of a shambles