Trainor shared a clip dancing to the song with TikTok influencer Chris Olsen and her husband Daryl Sabara, which featured an interpolation of the 1954 song ' Mr. She stated that she wrote the song 'Mother' after 'silly men' told her 'that having a baby would end career.'

She announced the release of 'Mother' when she was 21 weeks pregnant. Its release followed the announcement of Trainor's first book, which is also themed around motherhood, called Dear Future Mama. The song serves as the first single from the deluxe edition of her fifth major-label studio album, Takin' It Back (2022), and was sent to hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States on March 27, 2023. 'Mother' was written by Trainor, Sean Douglas, Gian Stone, Justin Trainor, and Pat Ballard. It became Trainor's first song since 2016 to enter the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and her first top-10 single on the UK Singles Chart in seven years, reaching the top 10 in other countries including Australia and New Zealand.

' Made You Look' was released as the second single. ' Bad for Me', was released as the lead single from it on June 24, 2022, and features guest vocals from American singer-songwriter Teddy Swims. After Trainor's 2014 song ' Title' attained viral popularity on video-sharing service TikTok in 2021, she announced her intention to pivot to the doo-wop sound of its 2015 parent album of the same name on her fifth one, in May the following year, along with her pregnancy's influence on it. She struggled while creating the former, rewriting it four times as an attempt to 'adapt to what's going on in the music industry' after its preceding singles underperformed. Meghan Trainor released two major-label studio albums in 2020, her third, Treat Myself, and her fourth, A Very Trainor Christmas.

It was released by Epic Records as a single on March 27, 2023.

Trainor wrote the song with Sean Douglas, Gian Stone and Justin Trainor. ' Mother' is a song by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor from the deluxe edition of her fifth major-label studio album, Takin' It Back (2022).

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