the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them |
the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) |
the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | the state of being confined |
| concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child |