"matrescent" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1975, Dana Raphael, Being Female: Reproduction, Power, and Change, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 68:",
          "text": "On the other hand, the constancy of others around her could indicate a reluctance on their part to allow her the full matrescent role.",
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          "ref": "1993, Barbara Katz Rothman, Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Perspectives, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 243:",
          "text": "In reality, the matrescent/patrescent periods represent a far more complex set of behaviors, full of stress as well as joy.",
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          "ref": "2017, Denis Walsh, Sheila Kitzinger, Norman Ellis, Improving Maternity Services: The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, Vol 2, CRC Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "These actions can be seen as matrescent in the sense of 'mothering', nurturing and protecting work colleagues.",
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          "ref": "2020, Susan Hogan, Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood, Routledge, →ISBN:",
          "text": "PhotoVoice is not considered a therapeutic practice but has been shown to be a beneficial photographic practice for matrescent women.",
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          "ref": "2020, Claire Arnold-Baker, The Existential Crisis of Motherhood, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 48:",
          "text": "Breastfeeding mothers are therefore in a matrescent state […]",
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          "text": "Conceptualizing birth centre care as 'gift' enables some fleshing out of the characteristics of matrescent care when enacted in the professional/woman ...",
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          "ref": "2013, Denis Walsh, Soo Downe, Intrapartum Care, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 2003:",
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        "Pertaining to those who are becoming mothers."
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          "ref": "1993, Barbara Katz Rothman, Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Perspectives, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 243:",
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          "ref": "2017, Denis Walsh, Sheila Kitzinger, Norman Ellis, Improving Maternity Services: The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, Vol 2, CRC Press, →ISBN:",
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