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Birth Mother
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birth mother or birthmother
n.
A biological mother.

birth mother,
the biologic mother or woman who bears a child. The child may have been conceived in a surrogate mother with sperm of the biologic father.

Biological Mother
A woman who carries a baby to term and delivers it

birth mother
Biological mother, genetic mother, natural mother Reproductive medicine A ♀ who carries a baby to term, who she plans to give up for adoption. See Baby M, Surrogacy Social medicine The ♀ who, with the birth father conceived a child, carried the pregnancy to term and delivered, then subsequently placed the child for adoption.


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Today, almost all birth mothers want a semi-open or open adoption rather than a closed adoption with the adoptive family.
20) Registries also protect the rights of the birth mothers to make an independent decision in their child's best interest when the father fails to act and timely assert his legal rights to the child.
The process is so quick that one in every 100 Guatemalan children born in recent years grows up as an adopted American' But critics claim the system allows birth mothers to sell their babies for profit, and even some adoptive parents worry that their babies might have come to them through unethical means.
 
 
 
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