puerperium
The period of about six weeks which follows immediately after the birth of a child.
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Puerperium
The period of confinement during and just after labor. Technically, the meaning includes the 6 subsequent weeks after delivery. During this time the reproductive tract returns anatomically to its nonpregnant state.
Concentrations of Total Proteins and Albumins, and AST, AP, CK and GGT Activities in the Blood Serum Boer and Saanen Goats During Puerperium.
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Obstetrics - Obstetrics is the surgical specialty dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (the period shortly after birth).
Resnik R (2004). The puerperium. In RK Creasy, R Resnik, eds., Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Principles and Practice, 5th ed., pp. 165-168. Philadelphia: Saunders.
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RCM. 2006. Domestic abuse: pregnancy, birth and the puerperium Royal College of Midwives, Position statement. [pdf file, accessed January 2010]
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Obstetrics: The art and science of managing pregnancy, labor and the puerperium (the time after delivery).
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Ovarian: Of or pertaining to the ovary.
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Distinguishing engagement from engorgement, vernix from vertex, and perinatal from puerperium might seem as easy as trying to say the right thing during labor. Here's a fun quiz to help you out.
Direct obstetric deaths: those resulting from obstetric complications of the pregnant state (pregnancy, labor and puerperium); from interventions, omissions or incorrect treatment; or from a chain of events resulting from any of the above.
6. Konishi Y, Tatsuta N, Kumada K, et al. Dissecting aneurysm during pregnancy and the puerperium. Jpn Circ J. 1980;44:726-33.
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but then they have had a period that was sort of 1/2 to 2/3 of a regular period for them, the bleeding had a sudden onset and was continuous for a few days, and then stopped completely. WHO references this mini-period as an "end-of-puerperium" ...
 See also: Pregnant, Pregnancy, Newborn, Delivery, During pregnancy
  
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