The period of about 6-8 weeks after labor during which the mother’s reproductive organs return to the nonpregnant state.
A period of about six weeks which follows immediately after the birth of a child, during which the mother’s sexual organs recover from childbirth.
The medical term for the six weeks or so after a woman gives birth, during which the body begins to normalize after its massive anatomical and physiological changes and the woman begins to adjust to the changed family life involving the new infant.
Time following childbirth during which the anatomic and functional changes of pregnancy resolve (e.g., the uterus shrinks).
Medical term for the 6 weeks following childbirth. During this period, a woman’s body begins to return to normal from the physical changes of pregnancy and childbirth. Internal organs, including the uterus and cervix, shrink back to normal size and hormones return to pre-pregnancy levels.
The period of up to about six weeks after childbirth, during which the size of the womb decreases to normal.
The period from the birth of a child anti the mother is restored to ordinary health. It is generally regarded as lasting for a month. One of the main changes that occur is the enormous decrease in size that takes place in the muscular wall of the womb. There are often AFTERPAINS during the first day in women who have borne several children, less often after a first child. The discharge is blood-stained for the first two or three days, then clearer till the end of the first week, before stopping within two or three weeks. The breasts, which have already enlarged before the birth of the child, secrete milk more copiously, and there should be a plentiful supply on the third day of the puerperium.
The postpartum period is the duration following childbirth in which the uterus and genital area undergo a process of returning to their pre-pregnancy condition.
The state of having recently given birth; the recovery period following childbirth.