also: だいりぼ
Refers to a woman who carries and gives birth to a child for another person or couple. Used in medical, legal, and ethical contexts.
Births by surrogate mothers are increasing.
She decided to become a surrogate mother for her friend.
借り腹 is a more colloquial and sometimes derogatory term for surrogate motherhood, literally 'borrowed womb', whereas 代理母 is the neutral, formal term.
surrogate birth; surrogacy
Standard kanji spelling. The reading だいりはは is the most common.
Alternate reading だいりぼ is less common but recognized.
Formed from 代理, “substitute” or “proxy,” and 母, read はは here, denoting a woman who bears a child on another’s behalf.