Meaning of room in | Babel Free

Definitions

Of a mother and her new baby; to stay together in the same room.

intransitive

Examples

“The concept of rooming-in to facilitate parenting was first championed in the United States in the 1940's by Faith Jackson, a child psychiatrist at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center […]”

“Infants may be separated from their parents when hospitalized if the parents cannot room in because of hospital policy or because the parents must work or care for other children.”

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