upsitting

1. (obsolete) The first occasion in which a woman sits up to receive company after giving birth.Examples: "In the firſt place, I muſt heartily congratulate thy happy condition, and muſt rejoyce at thy upſitting, whom God hath raiſed from the bed of deſpaire:"; "I am once more, bleſſed be God for all his Mercies to me enabled to dedicate to you the firſt Fruits of my Penmanſhip, on my Upſitting, to thank you, and my noble Lord for all your kind Solicitudes for my Welfare."; "I have been present, stretched on the floor in a blanket (asleep, apparently, no doubt), when two upsittings have been going on, at opposite corners of a large room, all still as the grave but the subdued whisperings of the happy pairs."countableobsoleteuncountable