room in
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room in (third-person singular simple present rooms in, present participle rooming in, simple past and past participle roomed in)
- (intransitive) Of a mother and her new baby; to stay together in the same room.
- 1986, Kim Oates, Child abuse: a community concern:
- 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 […]
- 2007, Theresa Kyle, Terri Kyle, Essentials of pediatric nursing, page 291:
- 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.