genetic 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 baby to term and delivers it

genetic mother

A ♀ who for various physical reasons–eg, anatomic defects or antibody production, cannot herself carry a fertilized egg to full-term; under the usual scenario, the GM's egg is fertilized in vitro, and implanted into a surrogate–gestational–mother, who carries the product to term. See Gestational mother.