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Of, relating to, characteristic of, or denoting the period after childbirth.
‘postnatal care’
‘This work attempts to consider and observe the continuum of personality between fetal and post-natal life.’
‘Women's vulnerability has been exacerbated by unequal access to basic resources, especially prenatal and post-natal healthcare services.’
‘What, then, has happened to our pre-natal, post-natal, nutritional support, health care and education programmes for the girl child?’
‘Both pre- and early post-natal exposures have been associated with cognitive deficits, distractibility, and difficult behaviors.’
‘Currently, there is still no inpatient post-natal care on site, so mums are discharged home a few hours after giving birth.’
‘The aim is to access women with substance use problems and encourage them to pursue regular ante- and post-natal care.’
‘The mother, who could be suffering from post-natal syndrome, has also been advised to seek medical help.’
‘The number of women attending post-natal care had fallen from 95.6 percent in 2002 to 82.4 percent.’
‘For these purposes, post-natal care means personal medical services for both the mother and baby during the fourteen days following the birth.’
‘Her background includes teaching, psychology, health promotion and research on ante and post-natal care and education.’
‘There is very little practical information about giving birth (just do what the doctor tells you) and even less about the immediate post-natal care (just ask your mother and grandmother).’
‘She was especially fortunate, she said, to have the same midwife not only for her antenatal and post-natal examinations and check-ups but also for the birth.’
‘Another area of high concern was the lack of post-natal care, especially for first-time mothers and lack of support for home births, particularly in rural areas.’
‘Deafness is associated with many hereditary and non-hereditary diseases and may also result from pre or post-natal exposure to a variety of toxins and traumas.’
‘There is another important help, which is having access to free or practically free coverage of all costs related to pregnancy, prenatal follow-up, delivery, post-natal care for the babies.’
‘With its profusion of midwives and naturalistic post-natal care, it is one of the few representations we have in western art that touches on the actual process of childbirth.’
‘It will deal with pregnancy, post-natal and baby, massage and yoga as well as reflexology and life coaching.’
‘Human growth during the embryonic, fetal, and post-natal periods provides a good model for mammalian growth.’
‘The procedure surrounding pre-natal and post-natal care was similarly haphazard.’
‘The clinic offers counselling, electrocardiogram and stress tests, pap smear, antenatal and post-natal care and vaccination and immunisation for infants and adults.’