The process of giving birth.
Medical terminology around childbirth has historically centered on male physicians' authority while erasing midwifery—predominantly female labor. The clinical distance of 'parturition' reflects this male-gaze medicalization of female reproductive work.
Use neutral medical term as-is, but acknowledge midwifery and birth workers when discussing maternal care history or practice.
["childbirth","labor"]
Midwifery, practiced primarily by women across cultures, represents centuries of knowledge in obstetric care—knowledge often dismissed when medicine professionalized under male authority.
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