room in

English

Verb

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

1. (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.

Anagrams

• Moroni, morion