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

Again on the road, with the husband of the little baby-mother for guide, who, by the way, was a most consummate scamp, incessantly urging me to make a short detour of five or six leagues, to dance all night at a fandango; and on taxing him with his gallivanting, and inconstant disposition among the softer sex, he replied, with an air of triumph,—O! yo he engañado muchas!—Bless you, I've broken the hearts of dozens—although he did not inspire me with being so determined a Lothario as he himself believed.

From Project Gutenberg

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