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DictionarySeegestational carrierEncyclopediaSeemothergestational mother
mother [moth´er] a female parent. With techniques of assisted fertility, three types of mother can be defined: (1) genetic, (2) gestational, and (3) social. A woman may be one, two, or all three types of mother to a child.genetic mother a woman whose contribution to the child was the ovum, and hence genes.gestational mother a woman whose uterus was used for the nurturing and development of an embryo into a baby.social mother a woman who rears the baby after birth.A woman who carries a fertilised embryo formed from another woman’s egg to term—completion of pregnancy—and is expected to release the infant to the genetic parents upon deliverygestational mother Surrogate mother A ♀ who carries a fertilized embryo to completion of pregnancy. See Assisted reproduction, In vitro fertilization, Surrogacy. Cf Genetic mother, Gestational carrier. |