alternative birth

1. 1.

   a method of childbirth that avoids intrusive high-tech medicine in favor of more natural and homely settings

   Synonymsalternative birthing

   Broaderchildbirth

Questions about alternative birth

What does alternative birth mean?

alternative birth means "a method of childbirth that avoids intrusive high-tech medicine in favor of more natural and homely settings".

What is another word for alternative birth?

Close synonyms include alternative birthing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alternative birth a common word?

alternative birth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.