The postnatal period begins immediately after the birth of a child and then extends for about six weeks.

She remained delirious during some of the postnatal period.

Brain injury can occur during prenatal, perinatal, or postnatal periods.

What is more, dream sleep is most vigorously engaged in by human beings in the early postnatal period.

It provides medical care to women in obstetrics and gynecology, from pre-conception to antenatal and postnatal periods.

Other mothers are depicted at home and at work after they leave the hospital, and here the focus is on problems that arise during the postnatal period.

The expression of both Dazl1 and Dazap1 persisted throughout testes development, in both the prenatal and postnatal periods.

Hypoxic-anoxic events may affect the fetus at at various stages of fetal development, during labor and delivery and in the postnatal period.

Evidence of exposure to OP pesticides during gestation and early postnatal period have been linked to neurodevelopmental effects in animals, specifically rats.

In 1948, Faut missed the spring training camp to be held in March and reported to the Blue Sox after her postnatal period.

Obstetrics - medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy (prenatal period), childbirth and the postnatal period.

Cystic hygromas that develop in the third trimester (after thirty weeks gestation) or in the postnatal period are usually not associated with chromosome abnormalities.

In the Indian subcontinent it furnishes the prime important ingredient of the nourishing food used for lactating mothers especially during the first three months of postnatal period.

Direct child exposure to phthalates in the postnatal period may be independently associated with behavioral symptoms or may act cumulatively with prenatal exposure to increase risk.

In other words, the disappearance of radial glia cells in the postnatal period of development prohibits physiological and reparative regeneration of nervous tissue.

FA is exceptionally rare in children, with only a handful of cases reported to date, However, several case reports have involved FA's in pregnant women or the early postnatal period.

However, postnatal growth rates in these high-cortisol infants was more rapid than low-cortisol infants later in postnatal periods, and complete catch-up in growth had occurred by 540 days of age.

Since 1949 the Memorial Hospital has also provided a maternity unit, managed by NHS Wiltshire which performs approximately 180 deliveries a year providing midwifery care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

From the prenatal period, correct nutrition can affect the developing of the system, short bowel syndrome (the most common one), necrotizing enterocolitis, gastroschisis or omphalocele to the postnatal period with diseases such as diarrhea.

Other risk factors include older age, surgery, immobilization (as with bed rest, orthopedic casts, and sitting on long flights), combined oral contraceptives, pregnancy, the postnatal period, and genetic factors such as a non-O blood type.

Keep in mind that not all multivitamins are equal: You'll need at least 400 micrograms of folic acid taken daily at least one month before conception and continued through the natal and postnatal periods [source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention].