Pregnant vs Doula - What's the difference?
pregnant | doula |
(not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
(comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
* Shakespeare
Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
(obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
* Shakespeare
A support person, usually female, who may not have medical or midwifery training, who provides emotional and practical assistance to a mother or pregnant couple before, during or after childbirth.
As nouns the difference between pregnant and doula
is that pregnant is a pregnant woman while doula is a support person, usually female, who may not have medical or midwifery training, who provides emotional and practical assistance to a mother or pregnant couple before, during or after childbirth.As an adjective pregnant
is (not comparable) carrying developing offspring within the body.pregnant
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) * pregnaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- I went to the doctor and, guess what, I'm pregnant !
- a pregnant pause
- wherein the pregnant enemy does much
- The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.
- Pregnant to good pity.
