Full mother

(6) is the most correct.
(5) is used in common speech to mean biological mother but it can also be used to describe a surrogate mother.
(1), (2) & (4) are not used.
(3) is a version of (6) but not as good.

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for replying.

The result of google:

(1) Full mother 7,500,000
(2) Blood mother 4,860,000
(3) Genetic mother 789,000
(4) Natural mother 4,490,000
(5) Birth mother 5,640,000
(6) Biological mother 674,000

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Full mother is on the top. But I am not sure about the why. Because we call a biological brother as "full brother" or "blood brother", so i think the two might work somewhere. If possible, please explain me why they have so many "supporters" in google.

Hi oristarA.

What you need to do is to put " " around your search in google.

Instead of just : full mother

use: "full mother"

When you use the former it will count any page that has both those words.

When you use the latter it will only count those pages where 'full' and 'mother' are used together as 'full mother'.

I haven't done the searches but I would bet that is what is causing the confusion.

Counting the hits on google is a very creative method for collecting statistics which I never thought of.

But you must remember that would still count instances such as, "...looked at her blood. Mother, why did you..."

And it also does not tell you if it is being used to mean the same thing in each case.

However, Adrain is right you need to use quotes.

birth mother - 141,000
biological mother - 42,100
natural mother - 33,200
genetic mother - 2,320
blood mother - 2,070
full mother - 1,600

These results actually look pretty accurate in terms of use. Biological is the technical way to say it, though. I do not understand how birth mother could be used to mean surrogate mother.

Counting the hits on google is a very creative method for collecting statistics which I never thought of.

But you must remember that would still count instances such as, "...looked at her blood. Mother, why did you..."

And it also does not tell you if it is being used to mean the same thing in each case.

However, Adrain is right you need to use quotes.

birth mother - 141,000
biological mother - 42,100
natural mother - 33,200
genetic mother - 2,320
blood mother - 2,070
full mother - 1,600

These results actually look pretty accurate in terms of use. Biological is the technical way to say it, though. I do not understand how birth mother could be used to mean surrogate mother.

Stuh.

The term 'birth mother' applies to surrogate mothers because they actually give birth to the child, but they are not a biological parent. This only applies, obviously, when the surrogate carries the child full term.
In such cases the child would have a 'biological mother' ie. The women that actually provided the egg. As well as a 'birth mother' ie. The woman that actually carried the fetus and gave birth to the child.

I was thinking of a mother who adopts a child. I'm pretty sure they are called surrogate mothers. I knew about invitro fertilization, but I had no idea they could take an egg from one woman and put that into another woman...that's pretty crazy.

Stuh.

The term you want is 'adoptive mother'.

Thanks for reminding me of that, Adrian and Stuh.

"Birth mother" 143,000

"biological mother" 42,600

"natural mother" 33,600

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Hi, everybody! The following is just my own opinion:
I just think each word listed above can use in particular circumstances. So all of them are correct.
I think the statistics coming from google is just the appearing ratio ...

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