tenderness

To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness

an expression of connubial tenderness.

Tenderness of look or mien

not tall s lowercase s small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)

the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus n the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother n the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother