Confinement

n.	1.	Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. - Addison.
	2.	Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.

Noun	1.	confinement - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" Synonyms: childbed, lying-in, parturiency, travail, labour, labor
	2.	confinement - the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
	3.	confinement - the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"

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