co-maternity

noun

Etymology

From co- + maternity.

Definitions

  1. The state of being a co-mother

    The state of being a co-mother; a mother to a child carried by another partner through reciprocal IVF (in vitro fertilization where one female partner supplies the ovum and the other carries the pregnancy).

    • Utvalget har vurdert hvilke regler som bør gjelde ved fastsettelse av farskap, morskap og medmorskap for barn som er født som et resultat av assistert befruktning i utlandet.
    • The legal issues for those pursuing co-maternity or egg-sharing are no less complex. Recent cases have shown the need for competent legal representation from the very earliest stages of the family-formation process.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for co-maternity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA