puerperium

From Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth”), noun form of puerperus (“of a woman in labour”), adjectival form of puerpera (“a woman in her childbed”), from puer (“boy”) + pariō (“I bear”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌpuː.ɝˈpiː.ɹi.əm/, /ˌpuː.ɚˈpiː.ɹi.əm/

puerperium (plural puerperia)

1. (obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
   • 1921, Robert Bing & Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of nervous diseases for students and practicing physicians: In Thirty Lectures, p84

     As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.

• antepartum
• parous
• postpartum
• puerperal

• pure-impure