The learned men have said that a man himself is born as his son; therefore, a man whose wife has given birth to a son, should look upon her as his mother.
आत्माऽऽत्मनैव जनितः पुत्र इत्युच्यते बुधैः। तस्माद् भार्यां नरः पश्येन्मातृवत् पुत्रमातरम्॥