Folks give birth without becoming a mother and one can be a mother without giving birth. Surrogates exist, for example. Folks give infants up for adoption. In

Folks give birth without becoming a mother and one can be a mother without giving birth. Surrogates exist, for example. Folks give infants up for adoption. In this case, you can wind up with a mother who didn't birth the child and a person who gave birth, yet didn't actually become a mother except in a loose sense of the word. On the sadder end, stillbirths still happen and society doesn't really consider this person to be a mother. (I'm personally fine with whatever the parents choose to be called).