gestate

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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

Chief among these hallmarks of placental mammals is the capacity to birth well-developed young, which gestate for a prolonged period inside the mother before being born in an advanced state.

From Scientific American • May 17, 2022

“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

The girls can't gestate in that climate, at least not until they've been there long enough to get their glands adjusted.

From PRoblem by Nourse, Alan Edward