How to Use birth canal in a Sentence

birth canal

noun
  • The baby could grow too large to pass safely through the birth canal.
    — Nancy Gottesman, Parents, 14 July 2023
  • That can mean the baby gets stuck in the birth canal, which could lead to injury or even death.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Indeed, the rescuers could see the baby's head in the birth canal.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
  • This prepares your body for the baby's passage through the birth canal.
    — Lambeth Hochwald, Parents, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The head was tucked against the body instead of pointing down into the birth canal.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • The four imps that are quickest to crawl the three inches from the birth canal to the pouch survive.
    — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • What might have happened if her baby, like mine, had been facing the wrong way in the birth canal?
    — Emily Flake, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Some brave doula to help the world-to-come through the birth canal and to offer it an ethical path?
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2025
  • But in other primates, the birth canal narrows farther down than that.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
  • When a baby passes through its mother’s birth canal, it is bathed in a soup of microbes.
    — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The concern is that the baby would get stuck in the birth canal during delivery.
    — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • The direction the baby is facing inside the birth canal plays a role, too.
    — Kate Morgan, The Cut, 15 May 2018
  • When the woman showed up, the arm of the second twin was dangling out of the birth canal, Smith said.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Riding in Dave’s pod is like travelling through a birth canal in which someone has thrown a rave.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • You may be relieved to know that this book does not involve a gigantic replica of anyone’s birth canal.
    — Jamie Harrow, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • If that occurs, most of the time the cervix will stop dilating and the baby will not descend into the birth canal.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The ideal position for a fetus to be in before birth is head down; that makes for the smoothest sailing through the birth canal.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • When the doe goes into labor, the VIT ejects out of the birth canal and onto the ground.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017
  • But as the labor continued, the second kitten was in breech position and stuck in the birth canal.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Caesarian sections make the healthy birth of babies too large to make it through the birth canal possible.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Schultz was wrong about the orientation in which the fetal head of different primates moved through the birth canal.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
  • As expected, all seven normal babies saw their heads change shape as they were born to conform to their mother's birth canal.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2019
  • As the baby comes through the birth canal, their body and head can press on the cord and cut off the supply of blood and oxygen that the cord is carrying.
    — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 25 July 2024
  • Baby opossums, which are born the size of an ant, somehow manage to travel from the birth canal into their mother’s pouch.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • If your baby is in a frank breech position, that means that their bottom is facing down towards the birth canal instead of their head.
    — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 25 July 2024
  • As Harmony Korine once said, cinema is stuck in the birth canal.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The soft spots exist so your baby can safely negotiate the narrow birth canal and allow for brain and skull growth in the first year.
    — Denise Schipani, Parents, 22 June 2023
  • Some come through the birth canal, some have to be surgically cut out of their mothers' stomachs, but all of them are covered in blood and viscera.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The point of this loosening is to eventually allow a baby to pass through the birth canal more easily.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, SELF, 10 May 2019
  • Those errors led Schultz to overestimate just how much room other primates had to shepherd their babies through the birth canal.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026

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