puerperium

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• So it was that I entered my puerperium, which is gynecological for the time of recovery after delivering, the time of post-partum elation. Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
• Pelvic floor exercises may be helpful in the puerperium.
• Blood volume changes in pregnancy and the puerperium. 7. REFERENCES
• Popularly spoken of as the "lying-in period," and medically known as the puerperium, this time of convalescence immediately following childbirth is usually occupied by two important things: the restoration of the pelvic organs to their normal condition before pregnancy, and the starting of that wonderfully adaptative mechanism concerned with the production of the varying and daily changing food supply of the offspring. The Mother and Her Child
• Common predisposing factors that require prophylaxis include surgery, immobilisation, pregnancy and the puerperium, and oral contraception.
• Nor will the inscription upon the altar serve to establish Pliny's opinion; because Agrippina was delivered of two daughters in that country, and any child-birth, without regard to sex, is called puerperium, as the ancients were used to call girls puerae, and boys puelli. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula
• Annual number of deaths to women as a result of childbirth i.e. assigned to causes of deaths related to complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium per 100,000 live births in that year. The Population of the United States
• A significant trend to higher stage of disease was present with diagnosis later in pregnancy and the puerperium.
• Death as a result of pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium (period at and immediately following childbirth) are now so low in the United States (as in other developed nations) as to present only minor risks, especially before age thirty-five. The Population of the United States
• They hated also to have the mother out of the home during the puerperium.