is a specific kind of: biological process, organic process.

is a broader term that covers: brooding, incubation | calving | accouchement, childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth | farrow, farrowing | hatch, hatching | egg laying, laying | childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail.

is a part of: reproduction.

derivation: bear, birth, deliver, give birth, have | be born.