初産

ういざん
しょざん
しょさん
はつざん
first childbirth
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I

ういざん【初産】

one's first childbirth [birth, confinement]; 〔犬･猫･豚などの〕 a first litter.

●うちの犬は初産で 6 匹の子犬を産んだ. Our dog had six puppies in her first litter.

●妻も 2 人目は初産の時ほどの緊張はないようだ. My wife doesn't seem so worried about the second (child) as she did about the first.

●30 歳以降に初産を迎える女性が年々増えている. More and more women are not having babies until they are over thirty. | Every year more women wait until their thirties to have their first child.

・彼は初産を控えた妻の体を気づかって早く帰宅するようにしている. He makes a point of going home early out of concern for his wife, who is about to have her first child.

II

しょざん【初産】

⇒ういざん.

III

はつざん【初産】

one's first delivery [confinement, childbirth]. [＝ういざん]

●初産が近い. She is going to be a mother [have her first baby] pretty soon.

●妻の初産の時 at the time of my wife's first confinement.