gestate

It's surrogacy, or the practice in which someone with a uterus agrees to gestate and deliver a baby on the behalf of other parents.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2024

Sheep typically gestate for about 5 months; the lambs that the researchers used were the equivalent of a human fetus at 23 weeks of gestation.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023

“Even if we got it genetically perfect, we are still going to have to gestate it in a different species, so why would you think it would be exactly the same?”

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 9, 2022

But when they arrived, the doctors said the baby needed more time to gestate and refused to induce Lilya early.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

Is he not justified in the conclusion that the nerves do gestate and send forth all substances that are applied by nature in the construction of man?

From Philosophy of Osteopathy by A. T. (Andrew Taylor) Still

Latifi, who gestated the book alongside her firstborn, argues that becoming an influencer is the modern pitch to mothers that they can raise a family without sacrificing their careers.

From Salon ● May 10, 2026

Brown began researching robots and robotics, and slowly the story gestated in his mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

Active labor: delivery of a fully gestated person who’s coming out of the womb, viable, at the end of pregnancy.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2024

While Johnson had been invited to record closer-to-home before, it took his comfort and confidence in his collaborators to get him to finally cut these songs that gestated over neighborhood walks and late-night guitar-tinkering sessions.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

It is the labored working of the mass, and the working of the mass brings forth and casts up fanatics, reformers, leaders, when it has gestated them and prepared the way for their birth.

From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland

"The kicker is within two or three days of giving birth, they fall pregnant again so while they're rearing the first litter, they're gestating the second," Henry says.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

These tools also allow women tasked with gestating children, caring for infants, and doing housework to not be completely consumed by it.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2026

While this project is slowly gestating, two prominent showrunners float Kaplan’s name as a supervising producer for their new show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024

The ruling, treating an embryo the same as a child or gestating fetus under the wrongful death statute, raised concerns about civil liabilities for clinics.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

This is the center that drew the gestating maternal blood-stream upon you, in the nine-months lurking, drew it on you for your increase.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence