The word "maternity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the period of time before and after the birth of a child. For example, you could say, "Many employers offer paid maternity leave for new mothers."
The BBC1 airing trounced rivals on the other channels such as Channel 4's The Island with Bear Grylls, which scored 2.4 million viewers and ITV maternity ward comedy The Delivery Man, which averaged 1.2 million.
After the maternity ward, accident and emergency, and police custody, the often turbulent process of divorce will become the focus of the latest TV documentary series to use Big Brother-style cameras.
They run a sexual assault clinic at a maternity hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The cuts proposed by officials at the Department for Work and Pensions include abolishing statutory maternity pay and barring under-25s from claiming incapacity benefit or housing benefit.
8. Pay, holidays, maternity and paternity leave EU law guarantees workers' rights in areas such as maternity and paternity leave, holiday pay and in the event of mass redundancies.
I'm writing from home now, as I start my maternity leave and everything that is calm and still in the world threatens to collapse around me like that bit in Inception.
Women are currently entitled to return to the same job if they take up to 26 weeks of maternity leave.
"Otherwise, apart from limited exceptions, once employees have opted into shared parental leave they cannot then revert to maternity leave," Bloodworth says.
Mothers will take the first two weeks – the compulsory part of maternity leave.
It is a shame, but the reality is that when I attend conferences or meetings about policies such as maternity rights, equal pay or childcare they are disproportionately attended by women.
Starbucks has also been criticised for plans to pare back staff terms and conditions, including cutting paid lunch breaks, sick leave and maternity benefits for thousands of its British workers.
