Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child.
1Plenty of these scrawny infants may be seen in the lying-in hospitals.
2Constipation, for various reasons, becomes a regular feature of the lying-in period.
3Or I'll take myself back to the mauntery for the final lying-in.
4Particular care should be taken of the fires in smithies and lying-in rooms.
5He then quickly entered the lying-in room in which thy sire was born.
6Charles White, an Edinburgh M.D., founded the Manchester Infirmary and Lying-in Hospital.
7It was the Hanna Larchmont Lying-in Hospital seen from the rear.
Translations for lying-in