Noun

• S: (n) parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child) "she was in labor for six hours"
• S: (n) confinement (the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them)
• S: (n) confinement (the state of being confined) "he was held in confinement"
• S: (n) restriction, confinement (the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)) "the restriction of the infection to a focal area"