mother to child
Generational nurturing link
Mother to child describes transmission or transfer from a pregnant or nursing woman to her baby.
The phrase appears most often in medical contexts discussing how diseases pass between generations: mother-to-child transmission of HIV, preventing mother-to-child infection.
The hyphenated form functions as a compound adjective before nouns.
- bondBinding tie or connection
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- skin to skinUnclothed bodies touching directly
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- genetic inheritanceTransmission of biological traits
umbilical · womb · umbilical cord · lullaby · bedtime story · breastfeeding · breast milk · genetics · lineage · tenderness · cradle · bloodline · blood tie · family tree · transmission · passing down · protective · generations
- disease spreadairborne, bloodborne, contact, droplets, fecal-oral
- HIV/AIDSHIV, AIDS, AIDS crisis, AIDS quilt, antiretrovirals
- STIschlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV, herpes, syphilis
mother, child, mothers, motherly, motherhood, motherless, mothering, maternal, maternity