grandfetus

English

Etymology

From grand- +‎ fetus.

Noun

grandfetus (plural grandfetuses)

1. (rare) A fetus of someone’s child.
   • 2000 November 9, Jenny Lynn, “Babies are babies, period”, in North County Times, Escondido, Calif., page A-17, column 5:

     Has any grandmother ever said that she will soon be able to refer to her grandfetus as a grandbaby?

   • 2004 February, Timothy Lachlan Chambers, “Forfar & Arneil’s Textbook of Pediatrics: 6th edition”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 97, page 96, column 1:

     A distinguished retired paediatrician telephoned me, concerned about his grandfetus which had been found through antenatal scanning to be one umbilical artery short.

   • 2009, Maridel Lee Bowes, “Second Trimester”, in Who Are You Calling Grandma?: True Confessions of a Baby Boomer’s Passage, 2nd edition, Sacramento, Calif.: 3L Publishing, →ISBN, section “January 22”, page 22:

     I feel elated paying the twenty-some dollars to insure a decent night’s rest and a reduction of bed-envy toward my wholly innocent grandfetus.

   • 2015, Kate Braestrup, Anchor & Flares: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and Service, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass., London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, chapter one, page 4:

     The newest family member (whom I refer to for the time being as our grandfetus) is now big enough to startle his dad-to-be with kicks and bumps visible on the outside of his mother’s belly. […] Nowadays, it’s normal to know, so Simon and I know that our grandfetus is a boy.