the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother

The feelings or characteristics associated with being a mother; motherliness, A place for the care of mothers in childbirth; a lying-in ward or hospital, The state of being a mother; motherhood, adjective_ Of or pertaining to childbirth or the period during which a woman is pregnant, For use during pregnancy, Relating to or effective during pregnancy, childbirth, or the first months of motherhood