The word 'gestate' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb which means to contemplate or meditate on something for a period of time. For example, "After much gestating, she decided to change careers."
That makes them more like elephant mothers, who give birth to very few babies and have to gestate them for almost two years.
But as long as there are people who cannot both conceive and gestate their own child, there will be donors and surrogates; and there will be customers, consumed with longing to be parents, willing to pay.
Indignant at the treatment he is receiving he complains that he has been 'fingered more times than an unripe avocado' and recalling the birth of his first child (which he didn't gestate) he asks his wife 'why did they invite me to watch?
As the man beat a retreat, the impolitic dealer shouted after him, "And your wife is a lousy violinist!" Such remarks must gestate at times behind Goodman's bashful mien.
A young architect can become famous right out of school with a competition design for a building, even if it is never built; engineers gestate longer.
Something would gestate in me.
I was mired in the first draft of my own political tale, one that had been gestating since I'd returned from London to Australia in 2004 and which took form, of sorts, in a short story published in 2008.
But British Airways is 6.9p better at 206.9p on hopes that the long gestating merger with Spain's Iberia is close.
Since both health and height contribute to male success, and both are reduced by gestating in the womb of a malnourished woman, there may be little point, in terms of grandchildren accrued, to such a woman giving birth to a son.These explanations are not, of course, mutually exclusive.
This strange creature, endemic to Australia, gestated its offspring in its stomach.
Indeed, many of the projects now taking shape across Myanmar have been gestating for years in rather obscure pan-Asian networks of joint Indian and Chinese provenance.
