lying-ins in English

noun
1
seclusion before and after childbirth; confinement.
Women who aspired to social prominence extended the confinement period before birth and the lying-in period afterward to testify to their affluence and physical delicacy.
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1. Synonyms for Accouchements include childbirth, deliveries, parturitions, travails, labor, labour, childbearing, birthings, childbed and lying-ins