How to Use birth mother in a Sentence

birth mother

noun
  • Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child.
    — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child.
    — Bhumika Tharoor, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
  • This was a view shared by Brina, the birth mother from Alaska.
    — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The birth mother died of a drug overdose shortly thereafter.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • What if this song is not about a lover, but about Prince’s rocky relationship with his birth mother?
    — Ahmir “questlove” Thompson, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026
  • Her birth mother had arrived at the hospital on drugs and without any plan for the baby.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 9 May 2026
  • Her birth mother arrived at the hospital on drugs and without any plan for the baby.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • Insolia plays the birth mother.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 June 2026
  • This legacy of pain is why Abbi is sharing her own story as a birth mother.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Sixty-two years after her secret birth, Brenner read her birth mother’s name.
    — Thomas Koetting, jsonline.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The filmmaker escorts her back to Romania to try to find her birth mother.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Take, for instance, Lindsay, a birth mother from the Midwest.
    — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • When Danny was a teen, Julia decided to track down his birth mother.
    — Andre Mouchard, Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • The film cuts to Taparjan in the present going back to Romania to trace her origin and find her birth mother.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
  • In the past timeline, Agnes finds out her birth mother was a Handmaid and not her beloved adoptive mother, Tabitha.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Much of the novel, which spans seven decades, follows Jimmy, who moves to Vienna as a young man to study and search for his birth mother.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
  • His life is shaken up with the unexpected arrival of his estranged birth mother, Marg, a steely, misfit who reminds him of himself.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Zoom, meanwhile, has trimmed leave for birth mothers to 18 weeks, down from 22, and cut non-birthing parents’ leave to 10 weeks from 16.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 25 May 2026
  • Using the video footage, machine learning and years of field observations, the scientists were able to identify the birth mother as a sperm whale named Rounder.
    — Nathan Rott, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In many cases, birth mothers are the ones who decrease or cut off contact in an open adoption, whether because of financial precarity, health problems, or other challenges.
    — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This notion is complicated by Ito’s turbulent relationship with her birth mother.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • She was found a week later and subsequently moved to Wisconsin to live with her birth mother, Deanna Micoley.
    — Anna Myers, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Nor was the jury sufficiently moved by accounts of his birth mother’s alcohol consumption during pregnancy, his small brain or other factors.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The stories that Mihaela and I were given, for example, about our birth mothers and our country of origin, are really interesting.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The actress' daughter also filed to legally change her last name to Neuens — her birth mother's maiden name — after being removed from Rosie's will in January.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Hannes Delcroix, a twenty-seven-year-old center-back, who was two years old when a family from Belgium adopted him, connected with his birth mother and cousins in Haiti several years ago.
    — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026
  • This book explores the history of motherhood as an institution and of mothering as an experience (centering the efforts of birth mothers, caregivers, midwives, as well as activists and community leaders).
    — Holly Corbett, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The study published in Adoption Quarterly in 2024 found that 17 percent of the 223 birth mothers surveyed had previously been in contact with their child but were no longer.
    — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The indie follows Christie, a timid 30-something who, after an unexpected positive pregnancy test, convinces her free-spirited best friend Ally (Ruffin) to help her track down her birth mother.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The film follows a young Black woman named Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), who wishes to connect to her white birth mother, Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn).
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Dec. 2025

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