rooming-in
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rooming-in
n
(Medicine) the practice of allowing a mother to keep her baby alongside her in a maternity ward
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room′ing-in′
n.
an arrangement in some hospitals that enables postpartum mothers to keep their babies with them in their rooms rather than in a separate nursery.
[1940–45]
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