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childbearing

 noun
     
Related topics: Birth
child‧bear‧ing [uncountable]
1MB the process of being pregnant and giving birth to children:
the trend towards later marriage and childbearing
2

childbearing age/years

if a woman is of childbearing age or in her childbearing years, she is of an age when it is physically possible for her to have babies
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