confinement

n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to

the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

[syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour}, {lying-in}, {travail},

{childbed}]

2: restraint of a person's liberty [syn: {detention}]

3: the state of being confined; "he was held in solitary

confinement"