matrescent

Ultimately from Latin mātrēscēns, mātrēscō (“I become a mother”).

matrescent

1. Exhibiting matrescence; becoming a mother.
   • 1975, Dana Raphael, Being Female: Reproduction, Power, and Change, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 68:

     On the other hand, the constancy of others around her could indicate a reluctance on their part to allow her the full matrescent role.

   • 1993, Barbara Katz Rothman, Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Perspectives, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 243:

     In reality, the matrescent/patrescent periods represent a far more complex set of behaviors, full of stress as well as joy.

   • 2017, Denis Walsh, Sheila Kitzinger, Norman Ellis, Improving Maternity Services: The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, Vol 2, CRC Press, →ISBN:

     These actions can be seen as matrescent in the sense of 'mothering', nurturing and protecting work colleagues.

   • 2020, Susan Hogan, Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood, Routledge, →ISBN:

     PhotoVoice is not considered a therapeutic practice but has been shown to be a beneficial photographic practice for matrescent women.

   • 2020, Claire Arnold-Baker, The Existential Crisis of Motherhood, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 48:

     Breastfeeding mothers are therefore in a matrescent state […]

2. Pertaining to those who are becoming mothers.
   • 2011, Rosamund Bryar, Marlene Sinclair, Theory for Midwifery Practice, Macmillan International Higher Education, →ISBN, page 192:

     Conceptualizing birth centre care as 'gift' enables some fleshing out of the characteristics of matrescent care when enacted in the professional/woman ...

   • 2013, Denis Walsh, Soo Downe, Intrapartum Care, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 2003:

     Matrescent care, understood in this way, incorporates an ethical disposition. If authentic, it would manifest more broadly than in just relationships with ...

mātrēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of mātrēscō