A perinatologist cared for her during the puerperium. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
So it was that I entered my puerperium, which is gynecological for the time of recovery after delivering, the time of post-partum elation. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Blood volume changes in pregnancy and the puerperium. From Wordnik.com. [7. REFERENCES] Reference
Clean walls, clean floors, and a scrupulously clean bed must be maintained throughout the puerperium. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
It is not at all unusual for a sleeping mother in the early puerperium to wake up in a sweat with night gown very nearly drenched. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Sunshine and fresh air are wonderful health restorers as is also a well-directed cold water friction bath administered near the close of the second week of a normal puerperium. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Population of the United States] Reference
A splendid tonic circulatory bath may be administered at the close of the second week (in normal puerperium), known as the "cold mitten friction," which is administered as follows: The patient is wrapped in. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Population of the United States] Reference
After being placed on annual leave pursuant to this section, no officer shall be granted sick leave, other than the 90 days of sick leave hereinabove authorized, because of sickness, disability, or need of medical services incident to pregnancy or puerperium. From Wordnik.com. [EXECUTIVE ORDER 9993] Reference
From a monetary standpoint there can be nothing so wasteful or extravagantly expensive in the home as to allow the mother to drag about from day to day and week to week with chronic weakness or invalidism because she did not have proper care during her already too short puerperium, or because she got up too soon. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
"And for this reason and in recognition of the need to reduce maternal deaths, deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (the period of up to about six weeks after childbirth, during which the uterus returns to its normal size) that government proclaimed these events notifiable with effect from 1 October 1997," Dr Ramokgopa said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In the days of our grandmothers it was almost the exception rather than the rule to escape "child-bed fever," "milk leg," etc.; but in these enlightened days of asepsis, rubber gloves, and the various antiseptics, puerperal infection is the exception, while a normal puerperium is the rule; and this work of prevention lies in the scrupulous care taken by anyone and everyone concerned in any way with the events of the day of labor. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
In the latter part of the puerperium there may be doubt as to whether. From Wordnik.com. [The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy] Reference
Walters looked into the statistics of such cases and found 36 accidental removals of the uterus in the puerperium with 14 recoveries. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Inversion of the uterus is an uncommon complication of the puerperium and it is an even rarer complication of the non-puerperal period. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Diseases of the genitourinary system Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
I have treated more particularly of the puerperium among the red races, and will add some interesting facts from the work above referred to. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
The mother was attacked with pneumonia on the fifth day of her puerperium, but recovered; the child died in four weeks of intestinal catarrh. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
In some countries of Malaysia the oil is used in the same way especially in beriberi and the periarticular inflammations incident to puerperium. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
An Obstetrician is a medical specialist dealing with the surgical care of women and their children during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (a midwife is a non-medical equivalent). From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The student attends, under the guidance of an instructor, the labor cases in the hospital, is required to prepare the history of patients, and to follow up the cases through the puerperium. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Virginia Record] Reference
The student attends, under the guidance of an instructor, the labour cases in the Hospital, is required to prepare the history of patients, and to follow up the cases through the puerperium. From Wordnik.com. [University of Virginia Record] Reference
The student attends, under the guidance of an instructor, the labor cases in the hospital, and is required to prepare the history of patients and to follow up the cases through the puerperium. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Virginia Record] Reference
Magnetic resonance imaging could play an important role in the differential diagnosis of pregnancy-related breast lumps, particularly during puerperium, thus avoiding unnecessary surgical biopsies. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
The average loss for the first week alone is said to equal one-twelfth of the patient's weight at the conclusion of labor; the total loss for the whole of the puerperium corresponds to one-tenth of her weight at the beginning of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy] Reference
Lactating adenoma is a benign condition, representing the most prevalent breast lesion in pregnant women and during puerperium; in this paper, a case of a woman with lactating adenoma occurring during the first trimester of pregnancy is reported. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
The money, he wrote, was to be used "for the sole and special purpose of establishing medical research scholarships for investigation into the causes, prevention and treatment of mental and physical pain and distress during pregnancy, labour and the puerperium". From Wordnik.com. Reference
With regard to the time of the puerperium, or the time of rest which is given the woman in childbed, there is a greater variation among the customs of the different tribes and people than in almost any other feature of that great physiological function of woman. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
Neumann investigated the knee-jerk in 500 women during pregnancy, labor, and the puerperium, and in a large number found that there was a progressive exaggeration with the advance of pregnancy, little or no change being observed in the early months; sometimes when no change was observed during pregnancy the knee-jerk still increased during labor, reaching its maximum at the moment of the expulsion of the foetus; the return to the normal condition took place gradually during the puerperium. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] Reference
Corré observes a fact, well known in this Mississippi Valley, that the breasts in lactation, just as the uterus in its condition of activity in pregnancy and in the puerperium can, allow a local center for malarial irritation; malaria is as much at home in the vast valleys and deltas of the great rivers of Asia and Africa as it is in our own Mississippi, and milk fevers with malarial types are frequently observed, and yield as readily to quinine among the Negroes, Hindoos or Arabs as among our own people. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
Falsum mendaci ventre puerperium. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
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