gestating
Growing a baby
Gestating describes the process of carrying developing offspring in the womb during pregnancy: a gestating elephant carries her calf for nearly two years.
The term extends to ideas or projects in early development: The plan had been gestating in her mind for months.
Both uses suggest something growing toward eventual emergence.
Gestating offspring
- embryoOrganism before birth
- trimesterThirteen-week span
- ultrasoundInaudible high-frequency waves
- prenatalBefore birth
antenatal · maternity · placenta · amniotic · expecting · obstetrics · midwife · doula
Generating many ideas freely
- conceptualizingForming mental representations
- formulatingCreating through systematic thought
- envisioningForming mental pictures
- conceivingForming in the mind
ideating · mulling · brewing · percolating · hatching · planning · developing · fermenting
Warming to develop
- maturingDeveloping toward completion
- evolvingChanging gradually over time
- developingBecoming more advanced
- unfoldingGradually becoming apparent
forming · ripening · growing · nurturing · cultivating · emerging · progressing · advancing
fetus
Gestating offspring
- embryoOrganism before birth
- trimesterThirteen-week span
- ultrasoundInaudible high-frequency waves
prenatal · antenatal · maternity · placenta · amniotic · expecting · obstetrics · midwife · doula · conception
brainstorming
Generating many ideas freely
- conceptualizingForming mental representations
- formulatingCreating through systematic thought
- envisioningForming mental pictures
conceiving · ideating · mulling · brewing · percolating · hatching · planning · developing · fermenting · simmering
incubating
Warming to develop
- maturingDeveloping toward completion
- evolvingChanging gradually over time
- developingBecoming more advanced
unfolding · forming · ripening · growing · nurturing · cultivating · emerging · progressing · advancing · differentiating
- growth stagesmature, immature, developing, adult, juvenile
- development stagesearly stage, late stage, infancy, childhood, alpha
- in progressunderway, pending, ongoing, active, unfinished
- not yetpending, waiting, delay, later, unfinished
- fertility statesfertile, infertile, sterile, barren, fecund
- gestational ageTime since conception began
- gestation periodPregnancy's full length
- gestational diabetesGlucose intolerance during pregnancy
- gestational carrierPerson carrying another's pregnancy
- gestational surrogacyBearing another couple's embryo