mother-to-be

mother-to-be

English

Alternative forms

• mother to be

Etymology

mother +‎ -to-be

Noun

mother-to-be (plural mothers-to-be)

1. A pregnant woman, especially one expecting her first child.
   • 2000, Allison England, Aromatherapy and Massage for Mother and Baby, Healing Arts Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 52:

     The ideal position for a back massage for the mother-to-be is to sit astride a chair supported by cushions.

2. A woman whose partner is pregnant.
   • 2010, Amie Klempnauer Miller, She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood, Beacon Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 55:

     I don't know how other lesbian, nonbiological mothers-to-be, who tried to get pregnant and could not, might experience their partners' pregnancy.

Translations

pregnant woman

Basque: amagai Chinese: Mandarin: 準媽媽／准妈妈 (zhǔnmāma) Finnish: tuleva äiti (fi) French: future mère f German: werdende Mutter f Hungarian: kismama Japanese: 妊婦 (ja) (にんぷ, ninpu), 孕婦 (ja) (ようふ, yōfu) Korean: 임부 (imbu), 잉부 (ingbu), 임산부 (imsanbu), 임신부 (ko) (imsinbu) Malay: bakal ibu Portuguese: futura mãe f Russian: бу́дущая мать f (búduščaja matʹ), бере́менная же́нщина f (berémennaja žénščina) Slovene: nosečnica f

See also

• be mother