posthumous child

A child born after a parent’s death.

• Ordinarily, the phrase posthumous child suggests one born after the father’s death. But in at least one case, a legally dead pregnant woman was kept on life-support machines until the child could be safely delivered; so it is possible for a mother’s posthumous child to be born. Cf. afterborn child.


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