A lawsuit filing, claiming that a doctor failed to advise the parents that a child might have the prospect of birth defects.

plural of birth mother

plural of birth father

A birth in which more than one baby is born.

plural of birth certificate

A protocol, agreed between mother, midwives and doctors, listing options such as birth companion, position at birth, pain relief etc.

(medicine) A birth in which the fetus is positioned with neither the head nor the feet lying in the direction of the birth canal.

plural of cross-birth

A name chosen for a child at birth, as opposed to a different name used subsequently.

(idiomatic) Travel from one country to another for the purpose of giving birth in the second country, thereby endowing the newborn child with citizenship of the second country.