History Main / AdoptivePeerParent

* After the destruction of Raccoon City and the death of her parents, Sherry Birkin (12) is somewhat adopted by Leon Kennedy (21) and Claire Redfield (18) at the end of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''. The [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake 2019 remake]] even has her bring up the idea that the two should adopt her. Files from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' reveals that the two of them become her emotional support during the years after Raccoon City due to Sherry's legal guardian, Derek Simmons, keeping her lockup until Albert Wesker's death 11 years later.

* ''VisualNovel/ALittleLilyPrincess'' discusses this as a possibility. Sara's and her younger friend Lottie, who both have a death-induced MissingMom, are in an arrangement where Sara is informally Lottie's mother. In one of Lottie's events, Sara marrying Lottie's father after graduating so the two of them can stay together and Sara can become Lottie's mother in a more official way is considered. When Sara says she doesn't want to marry, Lottie offers to marry ''Sara's'' father. Both options are ultimately dismissed.

* Played With in that the children she cares for are her cousins and little sister but [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Happy-New-Year-from-Sexy-Bunny-277199141 Bunny]] is in early to mid-twenties. Though she hasn't given birth to any children to speak of, but she is a bit young for motherhood. It is stated [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Older-Sister-s-Resentment-and-a-Younger-Sister-s-350456859 here]] that she didn't even finish college when Madgie came to live with her and is studying online so she can do so as to better provide for her youngest cousins. It was noted that, at some point, when Madgie was nine and she was twenty, she was mistaken for being Madgie's mother, something that would be virtually impossible, seeing as she is 11 years older than Madgie.

* The relative ages of ComicBook/{{Batman}} and his Robins changes depending on the continuity, but in several versions Bruce Wayne was in his early twenties when he adopted a 10- to 12-year-old Dick Grayson, putting their ages only roughly a decade apart. Dick is likely closer in age to Bruce than to his youngest adopted brother, Damien.
* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Tim's stepmom Dana is young enough to be his older sister, though there would be a significant age gap, and looks younger than her actual age. She is near [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]'s age, and he would eventually become Tim's older brother through adoption.
* In the current adjectiveless ''ComicBook/XMen'' series ComicBook/JubileeMarvelComics finds and adopts an abandoned baby she names Shogo. This despite only being 17, and thanks to being turned into a vampire she'll be the same age even as her kid grows up.

** Similarly, in an unrelated fic by a different author, ''Fanfic/OneMoreTimeOneMoreChance'', in a PromotionToParent situation (they have no living parents/other relatives), Satsuki takes custody of Ryuuko, though she is about 5 years older.

* A bit deconstructed by ''Fanfic/BequeathedFromPaleEstates'' as Oberyn Martell feels rather uneasy about being forced to marry a girl who's younger than ''half'' of his daughters and barely old enough to be an elder sister to the other half.

* It's common for VirtualYoutubers to call their character designer "papa" or "mama", even if the designer's own avatar looks roughly the same age as their "children". Some of these pairs play up the parent-child aspect for laughs.

* It's common for VirtualTubers to call their character designer "papa" or "mama", even if the designer's own avatar looks roughly the same age as their "children". Some of these pairs play up the parent-child aspect for laughs.

* If a lord in Japan didn't have an heir or a daughter he would often adopt a grown man to be the heir.

** Trucy's dad Phoenix "Nick" Wright is 33, while she is 15. Protagonist Apollo does the math and is mind boggled by the implications of this fairly small age gap. However, it later turns out that Trucy was adopted by Phoenix (Of course, long-time players of the series could guess that already long before that point). [[spoiler: This becomes somewhat HilariousInHindsight when you calculate the age difference between Apollo and his biological mother and learn that it is exactly the same as the age gap between Phoenix and Trucy.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', during the World of Ruin, Terra Branford ends up 'adopting' the orphaned children of a village where all the adults had died after the sundering of the world. When she rejoins the party, the two surviving teenagers Duane and Katerine, who are both last known to be sixteen in the World of Balance, help her take over caring for the children.

* Gintoki in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' who is in his [[VagueAge 20s]] takes in Kagura who's [[VagueAge about 14]]. Interestingly he fulfils many aspects of the DadTheVeteran trope.

** It's also been remarked on the show that Gloria's son Manny is technically a step-brother to Claire and Mitchell, even though he's the same age as Annabelle, his "nephew". Both Annabelle and Hayley have gotten around certain age limits by telling people "my uncle will be chaperoning" without mentioning ''which'' uncle. This usually backfires because [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Manny is actually a pretty good chaperone]].

* In the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', Rogue married Magneto and thereby became the adoptive mother of the sole survivor of his children, Quicksilver. He is an unspecified number of years older than her. (It could still happen in the main timeline).

See also AbsurdlyYouthfulMother and the other subtropes, especially MumLooksLikeASister. Compare PromotionToParent, which usually falls under this trope.

* ''VisualNovel/ALittleLilyPrincess'' discusses this as a possibility. Sara's and her younger friend Lottie, who both have a death-induced MissingMom, are in an arrangement where Sara is informally Lottie's mother. In one of Lottie's events, Sara marrying Lottie's father after graduating so the two of them can stay together is considered and Sara can become Lottie's mother in a more official way. When Sara says she doesn't want to marry, Lottie offers to marry ''Sara's'' father. Both options are ultimately dismissed.

** Depending on your definition of adoption, Hayate [[UpToEleven takes this to extremes]]. She has called the [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld several hundred year old]] Wolkenritter her children ever since she was ''nine''.

** It's also been remarked on the show that Gloria's son Manny is technically a step-brother to Claire and Mitchell, even though he's the same age as Luke, his "nephew". Both Luke and Hayley have gotten around certain age limits by telling people "my uncle will be chaperoning" without mentioning ''which'' uncle. This usually backfires because [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Manny is actually a pretty good chaperone]].

* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': Kobayashi (25) takes in Kanna, who is officially about 16 years younger than her (though in reality, Kanna is probably [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld several hundred years]] ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld older]]'' than her).

** Similarly, in an unrelated fic by a different author, ''Fanfic/OneMoreTimeOneMoreChance'', in a PromotedToParent situation (they have no living parents/other relatives), Satsuki takes custody of Ryuuko, though she is about 5 years older.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Thanks to AbusiveParents, Sora Inoue kidnapped his sister Orihime when she was 3-years-old and ran away from home. His act saved Orihime's life but left him PromotedToParent at the age of eighteen.

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** Nanoha officially adopted the then 6-year old Vivio when she was just 19. [[http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nanoha_introduces_vivio_to_her_family One fan comic]] had fun with this small age difference by having Nanoha introduce Vivio to her parents with no prior information, causing her father Shiro to have a breakdown when he thought that she got Vivio the usual way at the tender age of 13 (not helped by the fact that the timeline for this hypothetical pregnancy lines up with the time she got hospitalized for totally different reasons between seasons).

* Eureka (14-16) of ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' has three adopted children, all orphans. [[spoiler:She's the one who orphaned them, and she adopted them after realizing how horrible it was that she killed their parents.]] In the epilogue, all three children are [[spoiler:adopted by Renton as well, who is also 16, as Maurice, Maeter, and Linck all are shown to have the last name Thurston. It is also implied that Renton and Eureka are married, at least legally.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** At age 15, Fraw Bow from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' starts taking care of the orphans Kikka (4), Retsu (5) and Katz (8). Seven years later, we see them again in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'': 22-year-old Fraw has married [[ChildhoodFriendRomance victorious Hayato]] and they have adopted the three kids, who are now 11 (Kikka), 12 (Retsu) and 15 (Katz, who even joins the cast as a regular).
** ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'': In ''Steel Seven'', it's shown that Tetenith's stepmother Europa is, at the most, maybe 10 years older than she is. Likely a case of political marriage on the part of her father Crux, who was the sovereign of Jupiter.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'': 12 year old Shakti rescues an orphaned baby after a Zanscare attack, and is still shown raising him at the end.

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', pictured above, Kirito (age 16) and Asuna (age 17) adopt the little girl Yui in the VRMMORPG of the same name. Yui is [[ArtificialIntelligence technically less than two years old]], but acts closer to a precocious six year old.
* Yuuri (16), from ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'', adopts the ten year old girl, Greta, who tried to kill him in her first appearance.
* Satoshi, from ''Manga/DNAngel'', was adopted as a teenager by a man in his twenties.
* ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'': Oga is made Baby Beel's foster father through a DealWithTheDevil at age 15, while the foster mother Hilda is 16. However, virtually everyone else assumes that they are teen parents.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Thanks to AbusiveParents, Sora Inoue kidnapped his sister Orihime when she was three years old and ran away from home. His act saved Orihime's life but left him PromotedToParent at the age of eighteen.
* An erotic Korean manhwa aptly named ''My Stepmom'' (alternatively known as ''This Doesn't Feel Like Me'') goes like this: A young male protagonist has a new stepmom who is barely 10 years older than him. She's kind and all... for the most part, except that she likes to dress provocatively and all but stated to [[ParentalIncest develop sexual interest on the protagonist]] (who already has a girlfriend) and eventually did seduce him to have sexual encounter with her (several times). [[spoiler:In a somewhat complicated twist, several flashbacks later reveal that she's the protagonist's sort-of [[FlirtyStepSiblings stepsister]], since she's actually the bastard (and [[IHaveNoSon abandoned]]) daughter of the protagonist's ex-stepmother with her previous partner before marrying the protagonist's father (ignoring that, the ex-stepmother really slept around a lot with many men before and after marrying the protagonist's father and the stepmom [[SelfMadeOrphan had her killed]] [[KarmicDeath for abandoning her when she was little]]).]]

* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': Kobayashi (25) takes in Kanna, who is officially about 16 years younger than her (though in reality, Kanna is probably [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld several hundred years]] ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld older]]'' than her).
* Played with regarding Evangeline in ''Manga/UQHolder''. While she was born some time during the Hundred Year's War and normally looks like an adult, her true form is exactly ten years old (having been turned into a vampire on her birthday). This in contrast to her fourteen ([[spoiler:actually two]]) year old adopted son Touta.
* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': Alice's (age 12) father gets killed while trying to find shelter for them from a horde of zombies. She gets rescued by Takashi's group only moments later. In the following episodes, Alice quickly and steadily becomes attached to Hirano and Saya, as though they're her "new" parents. The feeling is apparently mutual, as both highschool students begin to treat Alice [[HappilyAdopted as their ward.]]
* Gon from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' was raised by his father's cousin Mito. At the start of the series she's 24 to his 12, and she's had him since he was a toddler, meaning she couldn't have been older than 14 when Ging left him in her care.
* ''LightNovel/ListenToMeGirlsIAmYourFather'': 19-year-old Yuuta adopts his sister's three orphaned daughters (only the youngest is a blood relation), ages 14, 10, and 3.
* In ''LightNovel/No6'' Inukashi who is likely 14-15 adopts a baby after said baby is orphaned during one of the [[KillThePoor manhunts]].
* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': Satomi's had to support herself and her kid brother, Daisuke, ever since their parents died in an automobile accident, 3 years ago. So she's essentially become a teen mom (minus [[TeenPregnancy the pregnancy]]).

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Tim's stepmom Dana is young enough to be his older sister, though there would be a significant age gap, and looks younger than her actual age. She is near [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]'s age, and he would eventually become Tim's older brother through adoption.
* The relative ages of ComicBook/{{Batman}} and his Robins changes depending on the continuity, but in several versions Bruce Wayne was in his early twenties when he adopted a 10-12 year old Dick Grayson, putting their ages only roughly a decade apart. Dick is likely closer in age to Bruce than to his youngest adopted brother, Damien.

* In ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''Fanfic/IfThemsTheRules'', eighteen year old [[PeggySue Harry]] adopts the eight year old Tom Riddle.
* There's a ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' 4koma in a [[LowFantasy near-mundane setting]] in which Suwako and Sanae, who already have this kind of relationship in canon, [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/538661 are classmates of the 11-year old Letty and 17-year old Yuuka respectively]] (Usual warnings about Danbooru and {{NSFW}} ads apply). They are still mother and daughter, in that order, [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/545646 which has been commented on being a special case]]. It has been theorized that Suwako merely [[OlderThanTheyLook looks young]]... [[VoodooShark and also has the mentality of a child and still attends elementary school]]. It has eventually been shown that they both look their age and aren't related in blood, which does raise the question of what in her name [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/956593 Kanako was doing at a children's festival with a bag of sweets and a marriage contract]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Jane Foster is in her late twenties when Harry is thirteen. This contributes to the initial awkwardness between the two, along with the ParentWithNewParamour thing, even if Lily is long dead [[spoiler: (and gently firm on the 'til death do us part bit, even if she's NotQuiteDead)]]), with Jane lampshading the relatively small age difference and noting that she doesn't think she's ready for kids yet, let alone a teenager. Over time, though, Harry becomes a ShipperOnDeck for Thor/Jane and has [[ParentalSubstitute a ready-made maternal substitute in his godmother Wanda]], so Jane - who treats him more like her foster brother, who's maybe five years older than Harry (who sees her as a sort of CoolAunt) - doesn't have to take that role.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': {{Downplayed|trope}} in the Prequel Trilogy. After Qui-Gon's death, Obi-Wan becomes Anakin's master and parental surrogate. At the time, Obi-Wan is 25 and Anakin is 9, making for a sixteen year gap. Qui-Gon, in comparison, was 48. As a result, Anakin and Obi-Wan have something between a brotherly relationship and a father-son one (Anakin admits he does think of him as a father figure, while Obi-Wan says he's like a brother), and they [[VitriolicBestBuds bicker like siblings]] as well.

* Paige of ''Literature/WomenOfTheOtherworld'' adopted Savannah when Paige was 23 and Savannah was 13; the dynamics of this are explored when Paige narrates how she's young enough to remember pulling exactly the same crap Savannah's pulling, which gives her a certain edge in the inevitable parent-child negotiations. Then Paige marries Lucas Cortez, also in his mid-twenties, and Savannah has two parent figures less than a decade older than her.
* Twenty-five-year-old Literature/KateDaniels becomes the legal guardian of twelve-year-old Julie. At first Kate refers to herself as a substitute mom, then as a crazy aunt, but she always refers to Julie as her kid.

* In ''Literature/AdrianMole: The Wilderness Years'', Adrian's mother falls for and marries her lodger, who is around the same age as Adrian. The guy eventually leaves her and runs off with Adrian's own girlfriend.
* In ''Literature/TheHallowedHunt'', Ijada's father died, and her mother remarried. Then her mother died and her stepfather remarried. When Ijada explains this, Learned Hallana asks:
-->'''Hallana''': And she's ah, how many years older than you?\\
'''Ijada''': Three.
* ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' is a cross between this and SupernaturallyYoungParent: officially, Carlisle and Esme are a twenty-something married couple with teenage foster children. In reality the whole family are vampires, all of whom are at least decades older than they seem--and in fact, Esme was actually born ''after'' her "son" Edward, despite biologically being about a decade older.
* At the end of the first ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'' book, ''Off Armageddon Reef'', ten year old Hektor Aplyn becomes Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk, the adopted son of King, later Emperor, Cayleb, who is not even twenty yet. The adoption, and elevation to the rank of Duke of Darcos, are in of honor Cayleb's father, King Haarahld, who gave his life protecting Hektor, at the time mere midshipman on his flagship, in the Battle of Darcos Sound. Despite the small age gap, and the fact that his biological family is still alive and well, Hektor refers to Cayleb and his wife Sharleyan as "father" and "mother" when they're together. Hektor is generally shown early on to be far more overwhelemd by his new rank than his adopted parents.

** After serving as [[spoiler:the fake 18th head]] of the Shiba household, ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'''s [[spoiler:Takeru]] is adopted into the family to become the actual [[spoiler:19th head]] in the finale. It's stated that [[spoiler:the 17th head, Kaoru's father, died 17 years before]], making the new adoptive mother 16-17 years old and ''younger'' than her son [[spoiler:who, from his age in flashbacks, appears to be 6-8 years older than her.]]

* ''Series/ModernFamily'':
** Claire and Mitchell's stepmother Gloria is roughly the same age as them - it's stated at one point that Gloria is in fact a few months ''younger'' than Claire, and less than two years older than Mitchell. (In fact, Sofia Vergara, who plays Gloria, is two years younger than Creator/JulieBowen, who plays Claire, and just over three years older than Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who plays Mitchell.)
** It's also been remarked on the show that Gloria's son Manny is technically a step-brother to Claire and Mitchell, even though he's the same age as Luke, his "nephew". Both Luke and Hayley have gotten around certain age limits by telling people "my uncle will be chaperoning" without mentioning ''which'' uncle. This usually backfires because [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Manny is actually a pretty good chaperone]].
* In ''Series/{{Defiance}}'', Nolan doesn't look much older than his adopted [[RubberForeheadAliens Irathient]] daughter, Irisa. Their respective actors are about 10 years apart in age.
* In the Brazilian telenovela ''Series/ForcaDeUmDesejo'' the protagonist is just a couple of years older than her stepsons. Slave girl Luzia jokes that she's young enough to be Inácio's wife instead of his stepmother, which is an AccidentalTruth as she ''was'' supposed to marry Inácio before tragedy hit them. Towards her other stepson Abelardo she settles more on a CoolBigSis role.
* In ''Series/MadMen'' Roger Sterling leaves his wife for a girl barely older than his daughter, which creeps said daughter endlessly, and her stepmother's attempt to clumsily play the CoolBigSis card (lavishing gifts on her and trying to give her advice on men) make it even worse. Bert Cooper refers to the second Mrs. Sterling as Roger's "child bride".
* In ''Series/TheTudors'', Princess Mary is actually older than her fourth stepmother Katherine Howard. In Real Life, she was just a couple of years younger than her fifth stepmother Katherine Parr.
* In ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}'', Patrick Blake's girlfriend/later wife Maxine is the same age as his daughter Sienna. This leads to awkwardness when hospital staff don't believe Maxine is the step-grandmother of Sienna's own daughter.
* In ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'', protagonist Takeru is the heir to a Buddhist temple, whose head monk Onari became Takeru's caretaker when Takeru's father died ten years previously. At that time, Takeru would have been 8 years old and Onari 16, so this trope applies.

* ''Series/TheMandalorian'' combines this with InterspeciesAdoption: the title character is looking after a baby alien, and as the season one finale notes, is considered his foster father by Mandalorian culture. The thing is, his ward is a fifty-year-old toddler from a species that lives for centuries, while he, a human, is probably[[note]]given his approximate age during the Clone Wars[[/note]] in his early-to-mid-thirties.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', 12 year old Genis's sister, sole caretaker and mother figure is Raine, age 23. She's been raising him since infancy, making her roughly 11 or 12 when she had to start taking care of him [[spoiler: because their mother abandoned them.]] It's implied in a Z-Skit that she's been a school teacher in Iselia for around six years, but it isn't clear what she did to support them before that.
* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour'' [[TheProtagonist Clementine]], 16, is taking care of AJ, 6. The justification is that this is a zombie apocalypse, and Clementine is the only survivor of the group AJ's parents were members of, and she's been taking care of him since she was ''11'' and he was a ''newborn''. The setting of this paticular season is a boarding school for troubled youth with only kids and teens living there. You can make an argument that older members of this community (who are 17-18) were peer parents to younger kids (age unclear, but likely about 12).
* In ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'', Bennett, the Earl-Consort of Dis, is only thirteen years older than his stepdaughter Gwenelle. He's been married to her mother Lieke since Gwenelle was a baby and she considers him her father.
** If Elodie plays her cards right, she can end up married to Ignatius, the older brother of the Duchess of Ursul. Elodie is 14 years old, 24 years younger than the 38-year old Ignatius, and a year younger than ''her own stepdaughter Briony'' (who is appropriately mortified).

* If the female protagonist of ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonLightOfHope'' marries Gorgan, she becomes the step-mother of Nova. Nova is not only the same age as the protagonist, but she can be married by the male protagonist.
* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonTwo'': [[PlayerCharacter Clementine]] (11) becomes one to [=AJ=] (a newborn) after [[spoiler:his parents die]]. [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour Season four]] introduces a boarding school that was left by adults right at the start of the ZombieApocalypse, leaving kids to fend for themselves. Many of the older members (about 16-18 now) can be considered this to the younger kids (8-10 now).

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Dave's much older brother is revealed to be [[spoiler: his genetic father, through cloning shenanigans. The author indicated that Bro is 28 years old, so he had to have been about 15 when he adopted Dave.]] The same likely goes for Rose's mom, who is also quite youthful. Strangely, though [[spoiler:the published version refers to Bro as "30-something"]]. It may just be another case of Creator/AndrewHussie being... well, [[TeasingCreator Andrew Hussie]].

* Following the events of chapter 50 of ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'', Ariel and Faen, who are the physical equivalent of mid to late teenagers[[note]]drow physically age at half the rate of a human, so the 30-year-old Ariel is the equivalent of a 15-16 year old human[[/note]], take over custody of Ariel's two youngest siblings, a toddler boy who's just learning to speak and an infant girl.

* Twilight and Spike's relationship varies DependingOnTheWriter in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', but Twilight is often treated as Spike's maternal substitute as she hatched and reared him. Their ages are vague but Spike is treated as a preteen while Twilight is implied to be in her late teens or early twenties.
* Jerrica from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' is implied to be in her early-to-mid twenties yet a few of her foster daughters are in their mid-teens. Jerrica's father was their original foster parent, but Jerrica took over after his death. This is TruthInTelevision as Americans can foster at age twenty-one.

* Literature/TogetherlyLong: Chiisai was saved from the loneliness and fear of living by herself in the jungle when she found the parentless Oukii as a baby wandering around for help. Though her age isn't given explicitly, she's said to be a few years younger than Oukii by the time he's grown up to be around ten due to her species aging slowly, and though at that point their relationship has really changed to be more like best friends than parent and child, she still likes to think of him as her little Oukii sometimes.

* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': (12 year old) Alice's father gets killed while trying to find shelter for them from a horde of zombies. She gets rescued by Takashi's group only moments later. In the following episodes, Alice quickly and steadily becomes attached to Hirano and Saya, as though they're her "new" parents. The feeling is apparently mutual, as both highschool students begin to treat Alice [[HappilyAdopted as their ward.]]

* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': Satomi's had to support herself and her kid brother, Daisuke, ever since their parents died in an automobile accident, 3 years ago. So she's essentially become a TeenMom (minus the pregnancy).