songs sung to celebrate a birth

woman who has recently given birth

midwifery

maternity home or centre, the room in which a woman is delivered, a laying in chamber

woman who has recently given birth

mother and baby

(in response) yes, sir or madam

if you wish, if you like

desire, wish, want, covet, crave, long for

convalesce, recover health

to lose heart, to be disheartened or discouraged, to be faint, to sink

lose heart, lose desire or urge

be defeated, (at chess) be stalemated