birth art
n. Art that depicts or celebrates pregnancy or childbirth.
Examples
2001
Susquehanna Birth Network will host an open house on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m., at the Marietta Community House. Parents expecting a baby are invited to experience doula services, receive a sample massage and join in birth art exercises.
—“Childbirth group hosts open house,” Intelligencer Journal, May 15, 2001
1997 (earliest)
I have named my business The Art of Birth partially because I collect birth art and seek out birth images wherever I go but also because I truly feel that birth is an art!
—Michelle Cormack, “New Canadian Regional Director,” Special Delivery, January 01, 1997
Notes
Many, many books come to us at Midwifery Today, both for potential review and for our new Birth Art and Bookstore.
—Jan Tritten, “To Learn to Grow,” Midwifery Today, January 31, 1992
Posted: October 23, 2001