Dictionary (n.) State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.Thesaurus accouchement babyhood beginnings birth birth throes birthing blessed event childbearing childbed childbirth childhood confinement cradle delivery freshman year genesis giving birth hatching having a baby inception inchoation incipience incipiency incunabula infancy labor multiparity nascence nativity origin origination parturition pregnancy the Nativity the stork travail youth |