Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Giving or having given birth for the first time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing a child for the first time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
pregnant for the first time - adjective Having
given birth to only one child - adjective bearing a first offspring; having borne only one previous offspring
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a woman who has given birth only once
Etymologies
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Examples
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We observed a significant fecundity increase even in primiparous mothers, which was not evident in the previous study.
Love and Marriage 2009
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Fecal and urinary incontinence in primiparous women.
The Official Lamaze® Guide Judith Lothian RN 2010
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Fine, P., et al 2007 Teaching and practicing of pelvic floor muscle exercises in primiparous women during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
Health & Fitness News William Harryman 2007
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In primiparous women the mean duration of the second stage is now often reported at about 45 minutes.
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Perineal tears occur frequently, especially in primiparous women.
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The results suggested that for primiparous women with a low-risk pregnancy a home birth was as safe as a hospital birth.
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In 1930 De Snoo determined the duration of the second stage of labour in 628 primiparous women with the fetus in vertex presentation.
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In many centres blanket policies, such as a requirement for all primiparous women to have an episiotomy, are in place.
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It hadn't been bad enough to produce symptoms, but the stress of a long and difficult primiparous labor caused it to rupture.
Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983
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Bousquet 4.11 speaks of a primiparous mother, aged twenty-four, giving birth to 4 living infants, 3 by the breech and 1 by the vertex, apparently all in one bag of membranes.
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