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birth chair

birth chair is the alternative form of birthing chair.

Meaning of birthing chair

Noun

birthing chair (plural birthing chairs)

  1. A chair designed to place a woman who is in labor in a position which facilitates childbirth.
    • Two nurse-midwives at the Milwaukee Birth Center (MBC), Milwaukee, OR, designed a new birthing chair that has received rave reviews from the first 25 women who used it for labor and delivery.1984, “Clinical News: Rebirth of the Birthing Chair,”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 84, number 7, page 872

Forms of birth chair

pluralbirth chairs

Questions about birth chair

What is birth chair the alternative form of?
Birth chair is the alternative form of birthing chair.

Words near birth chair in the dictionary

  1. birth canals
  2. birth cert
  3. birth certificate
  4. birth certificates
  5. birth certs
  6. birth chair
  7. birth chairs
  8. birth chart
  9. birth charts
  10. birth control
  11. birth control glasses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birth chair (page history and authors); birthing chair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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