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room in

room in verb: of a mother and her new baby; to stay together in the same room.

Verb

room in (third-person singular simple present rooms in, present participle rooming in, simple past and past participle roomed in)

  1. (intransitive) Of a mother and her new baby; to stay together in the same room.
    • The concept of rooming-in to facilitate parenting was first championed in the United States in the 1940's by Faith Jackson, a child psychiatrist at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center […]1986, Kim Oates, Child abuse: a community concern
    • Infants may be separated from their parents when hospitalized if the parents cannot room in because of hospital policy or because the parents must work or care for other children.2007, Theresa Kyle, Terri Kyle, Essentials of pediatric nursing, page 291

Forms of room in

third-person singular presentrooms in
present participlerooming in
past participleroomed in
pastroomed in

Questions about room in

What does room in mean?
Room in means of a mother and her new baby; to stay together in the same room.
What part of speech is room in?
Room in is a verb.
What is the past tense of room in?
The past tense of room in is roomed in.

Words near room in in the dictionary

  1. room divider
  2. room dividers
  3. room for a pony
  4. room for doubt
  5. room for maneuver
  6. room in
  7. room meat
  8. room of doom
  9. room parties
  10. room party
  11. room service

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