pregnancy

nonsexist term, but sometimes found in sexist contexts. Is pregnancy treated as an illness, disability, misfortune, or inferior state of being? Is the pregnant person assumed to be moodier and less capable than other people? Are pregnant people penalized in the workplace? Sex-neutral terms for pregnant in its metaphorical sense include expectant, suspenseful, waiting, teeming, meaningful, profound, momentous, ominous. Note the difference between a gestational pregnancy and a surrogacy pregnancy: in the former, the gestational carrier is not related to the fetus but carries it for a couple when neither of them are able to carry a pregnancy to term; "surrogacy pregnancy" is used less often, because it implies traditional surrogacy in which a woman is inseminated with the sperm of a man who is not her partner to conceive and carry a child for him and his partner. In this form of surrogacy, the surrogate gives their own genetic child to the other couple; the biologic father and partner adopt the child after birth. See also assisted reproduction, pre-pregnant.