postpartumadv.adj.

1844 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 41 267 On using the catheter, 36 hours post partum, Dr. Crosse found the uterus inverted in the vagina.

1909 Science 9 Apr. 588/2 Large outputs [of creatin] have been found in the urine of women during the first week post partum, when resolution of the uterus is taking place.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 2 Sept. (Abstracts) 8/2 There were only 14 suicides, one per 92,982 live births during the 16-year period. Ten of these occurred post partum, and only four occurred with the fetus in utero.

1974 Publishers Weekly 18 Mar. 44/3 The scary-funny business of bearing a baby and coping postpartum.

2004 Pediatrics (Electronic ed.) 3 Dec. At 6 and 12 months postpartum the rates of breastfeeding duration are still considerably below the national goals.

1846 Northern Jrnl. Med. 4 1 (heading) Some suggestions regarding the anatomical source and pathological nature of post-partum hemorrhage.

1878 A. M. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 113 The alarming condition that we occasionally meet with after post-partum hemorrhage.

1911 R. Jardine Delayed & Complicated Labour xiv. 185 If the third stage of labour is properly conducted, post-partum hæmorrhage can be largely prevented.

1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 244 I was beginning to feel the empty winds of a post-partum gloom.

1995 Today's Parent Feb. 103 Starting with a detailed discussion of body changes after birth, pelvic floor recovery, and caring for and enjoying your post-partum body, Kitzinger moves on to insightful, sympathetic treatment of feelings and relationships.

2014 M. R. Davidson Fast Facts for Antepartum & Postpartum Nurse Pref. xii. The nurse that can handhold through the deepest sorrow..is the antepartum or postpartum nurse who is most treasured.

1929 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 8 767 I didn't study the infanticidal impulses of many women, because these impulses are more prominent in post-partum depressions.

1940 Hammond (Indiana) Times 30 June 13/2 Post-partum depression is an anticlimatic [sic] fatigue and melancholy that descends on women..after they have had a baby.

1976 Diss. Abstr. Internat. B. 36 5793/1 Hostile attitudes toward mother figures predispose some women toward experiences of postpartum depression.

2007 B. A. Sallinen et al. in A. I. Rosenfield New Res. Postpartum Depression i. 2 Psychological symptoms of postpartum depression range from mild to severe and are typically affective in nature.