prenatalUS

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Obstetrics: birth
antenatally
Apgar score
B, b
birth centre
birth pangs
birth rate
childbirth
contraction
delivery suite
doula
due date
episiotomy
gas and air
induce
posh
reborn
tokophobia
vacuum extraction
ventouse
whelp
postpartum
adverb
 medical specializeduk /ˌpəʊstˈpɑː.təm/ us /ˌpoʊstˈpɑːr.t̬əm/
during the period after a baby has been born:
Women who are healthier before pregnancy have fewer symptoms postpartum.
If you still feel sad and listless postpartum, talk to your doctor.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Obstetrics: birth
antenatally
Apgar score
B, b
birth centre
birth pangs
birth rate
childbirth
contraction
delivery suite
doula
due date
episiotomy
gas and air
induce
posh
reborn
tokophobia
vacuum extraction
ventouse
whelp
postpartum
noun[ U ]
 medical specializeduk /ˌpəʊstˈpɑː.təm/ us /ˌpoʊstˈpɑːr.t̬əm/
the period after a baby has been born:
Treatment of noninvasive cervical cancer can be postponed until postpartum.
They wrote a paper on the management of thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy and postpartum.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Obstetrics: birth
antenatally
Apgar score
B, b
birth centre
birth pangs
birth rate
childbirth
contraction
delivery suite
doula
due date
episiotomy
gas and air
induce
posh
reborn
tokophobia
vacuum extraction
ventouse
whelp

postpartum | American Dictionary

postpartum
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/poʊstˈpɑr·t̬əm/
following the birth of a child:
They offer the full package of prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care.

Examples of postpartum

postpartum
Should postpartum depression be targeted to improve child mental health?
Research is needed to evaluate the efficacy of prevention and treatment for postpartum depression.
These conjectures are proposed in lieu of specific information regarding the precise mechanisms linking prenatal, postpartum, and concurrent hormones and temperament and behavior regulation.
Presently, little is known concerning the impact that maternal depression during the prenatal and early postpartum period has on fetal neurobiological and psychological development.
Although collagen weakness has been implicated in the pathogenesis of incontinence, physical markers of collagen weakness used in this study could not predict postpartum symptoms.
Pre-eclampsia is limited to the second half of gestation and the early postpartum period.
Moreover, these individuals have a subsequently higher risk for a postpartum depression than the general population, and this needs to be considered as well.
To this end, a truly longitudinal approach was employed that followed young women from the prenatal period to 3 years postpartum.
In the case of postpartum and concurrent hormone periods, the child-rearing environment provides the context for affecting attentional and motivational processes.
They were fed alfalfa silage throughout the pre-and postpartum periods with no concentrate supplementation.
Male fetal progenitor cells persist in maternal blood for as long as 27 years postpartum.
A smaller percentage of the women reported severe depressive symptoms at 6 months postpartum than had during pregnancy (29% as compared to 56%).
A total of 246 women met criteria for major depressive episode in the postpartum period.
This is, in reality, not only a postpartum phenomenon but also a significant risk throughout pregnancy.
There appeared to be a modest association from the prenatal to the postpartum period in dysthymia.
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