noun plural
1. : pains in the legs of children caused by fatigue, postural defects, emotional disturbances, or other factors having no demonstrable relation to growth
2. : the stresses and strains attending the formative period (as of an industry) or any process of rapid or dynamic change or growth
merely natural growing pains of a new economy — Atlantic
the country's social and economic growing pains — J.H.Huizinga
our fruit-canning industry … is still suffering from its growing pains — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa)