perinatal
围产期,围产期的,围生期,产期
Definitions
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- : occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
Examples
People who develop some form of perinatal depression seem to have GABA systems that aren’t able to adapt to changes in hormones and general stress either during or after pregnancy.
That may be, at least in part, due to the difference between the broader major depressive disorder and the much more specific perinatal depression.
Until recently, treatment for perinatal depression—an umbrella term that refers to all depressive disorders related to pregnancy and childbirth—was exactly the same as for other depressive disorders.
Some were so small they could only come from perinatal dinosaurs, those who die while still in the egg or just after hatching.
Malawa has fought racial inequities in perinatal health at Expecting Justice since 2017, but she says the group wanted to find a new strategy to supplement its other work.
Then, as now, an attitude of complacency around maternal and perinatal mortality gets in the way of action.
The study also pointed out that the Netherlands has one of the highest perinatal morality rates in Europe.