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  • adjective Before giving birth; prenatal.

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Examples

  • I have a WONDERFUL therapist who helped me TREMENDOUSLY when I went through prepartum depression.

    Scared 2008

  • Josna developed labor pains in the seventh month of her pregnancy and went into prepartum haemorrhage.

    Deepa Jha: The Right of Every Woman to Survive Childbirth Deepa Jha 2010

  • As a prepartum gift, the couple sent Dawne and her husband to the Super Bowl.

    The Curious Lives of Surrogates 2008

  • It is the mother who has the job of constructing the fetus out of prepartum nourishment and her own body's nutritional reserves.

    How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser

  • It is what happens when a women has prepartum and postpartum depression and gradually comes out of it with no help from medicines or professionals because there is no money to afford help.

    All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content 2009

  • If the father wants the child and the mother doesn’t, there is no current feasible way for the father to take on the prepartum duties - that’s something only a woman can do, and I don’t think post-implantation fetus transplants are available.

    How to eliminate extreme poverty according to the UNFPA 2005

  • He had been writing speeches for Barry for a couple of years, but the book we’re talking about, which I saw prepartum, in partu and postpartum before, during and after birth was Brent’s.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • He had been writing speeches for Barry for a couple of years, but the book we’re talking about, which I saw prepartum, in partu and postpartum before, during and after birth was Brent’s.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • He had been writing speeches for Barry for a couple of years, but the book we’re talking about, which I saw prepartum, in partu and postpartum before, during and after birth was Brent’s.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • He had been writing speeches for Barry for a couple of years, but the book we’re talking about, which I saw prepartum, in partu and postpartum before, during and after birth was Brent’s.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

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