baby-mother

British  

noun

1. a young mother who has been abandoned by the baby's father just before or after the birth

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Example Sentences

Even with these intense attacks, I’ve still been able to benefit from the baby-mother bonding that breastfeeding provides.

From Washington Post

These baby-mother pairs might have the formula.

From Washington Post

An eight-year study of 70 baby-mother pairs at the University of Tennessee, published in 2002, confirmed that food preferences are established early: 8-year-olds usually like the same foods they did when they were 4, and preferences are often formed as early as age 2.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now she was a baby-mother; playing with her infant as, not so very long since, she had played with her doll; twisting its tiny fingers, and making them close tightly round her own, which were quite as elfin-like, comparatively.

From Project Gutenberg