seahorse dad
seahorse dad noun: synonym of birthing father.
Noun
seahorse dad (plural seahorse dads)
- Synonym of birthing father.
- I hope, among other things, that this album will inspire birth workers and future seahorse dads (AKA gestational fathers). I know how meaningful images like this could have been for me before my first pregnancy and how meaningful it is for me to see images of fellow birthing trans and nonbinary...2020 August 3, Yuval Topper-Erez (quoted) Morgan Brinlee, “This Trans Dad's Home Birth Photos Beautifully Capture The Raw Emotion Of Labor”, in Romper
- Calling himself a "seahorse dad" – as in seahorses it is the male that gives birth – Bennett, who is due on November 5 and is recording his pregnancy on Instagram, has stopped the hormone treatment he began in the summer of 2014, to start a family.2020 September 27, Daniel Smith, “How pregnant transgender man dubbed a 'seahorse dad' stopped hormone treatment to start a family”, in WalesOnline
- Synonyms:
- birthing father
Examples of seahorse dad in a sentence
- I hope, among other things, that this album will inspire birth workers and future seahorse dads (AKA gestational fathers).2020 August 3, Yuval Topper-Erez (quoted) Morgan Brinlee, “This Trans Dad's Home Birth Photos Beautifully Capture The Raw Emotion Of...
- The couple is also excited to start a family, with Elvis looking forward to becoming a "seahorse dad" — a male-identifying person who can have children.2022 November 7, Emily Lefroy, “He stuck by his man — and married weeks after he came out as trans”, in New York Post:
Synonyms of seahorse dad
Forms of seahorse dad
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Origin of seahorse dad
In reference to seahorse biology, in which the male of the species gives birth to the young.
Questions about seahorse dad
- What does seahorse dad mean?
- Seahorse dad means synonym of birthing father.
- How do you use seahorse dad in a sentence?
- I hope, among other things, that this album will inspire birth workers and future seahorse dads (AKA gestational fathers).
- What part of speech is seahorse dad?
- Seahorse dad is a noun.
- What is the plural of seahorse dad?
- The plural of seahorse dad is seahorse dads.
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