alternative birthing

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsalternative birth

   Broaderchildbirth

Questions about alternative birthing

What does alternative birthing mean?

alternative birthing 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 birthing?

Close synonyms include alternative birth. 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 birthing a common word?

alternative birthing 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.