room in

verb

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

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Meanings

verbroom in (third-person singular simple present rooms in, present participle rooming in, simple past and past participle roomed in)

present singular third person rooms in · participle present rooming in · participle past roomed in · past roomed in

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

    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.

    2007, Theresa Kyle, Terri Kyle, Essentials of pediatric nursing, page 291
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    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 […]

    1986, Kim Oates, Child abuse: a community concern
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