period of childbirth
1Childbirth Connection — Childbirth Connection, formerly known as the Maternity Center Association, is an American national nonprofit organization that works to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy, and policy. Childbirth Connection …
2Childbirth — Parturition redirects here. For the Voyager episode, see Parturition (Star Trek: Voyager). Childbirth (also called labor, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more… …
3Childbirth and obstetrics in antiquity — Traditionally obstetrics is defined as the surgical specialty dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, although in Antiquity surgical intervention did not exist. Without the presence of… …
4Puerperium — The time immediately after the delivery of a baby. (In Latin a puerpera is a woman in childbirth since puer means child and parere means to give birth.) Puerperal fever is childbirth (or childbed) fever due to an infection usually of the… …
5Mikveh — Mikva redirects here. For the U.S. Representative and federal judge, see Abner J. Mikva. Part of a series on …
6puerperal — Relating to the puerperium, or period after childbirth. SYN: puerperant (1). * * * pu·er·per·al pyü ər p(ə )rəl adj of, relating to, or occurring during childbirth or the period immediately following <puerperal infection> <puerperal… …
7Tumah — is a state of ritual impurity in Halakha (Jewish law). A person or item which contracts tumah is said to be tamei , or impure. Tumah can be received in the following manners: # By contact with dead body i.e. tumat met, which, in addition to the… …
8puerperium — /pyooh euhr pear ee euhm/, n. Obstet. the four week period following childbirth. [1885 90; < L: childbirth, childbed, equiv. to puerper(us) of a woman in labor (puer boy, child + perus bringing forth, akin to parere to bear, breed) + ium IUM] * * …
9Sexual abstinence — is the practice of voluntarily refraining from some or all aspects of sexual activity. Common reasons to deliberately abstain from the physical expression of sexual desire include religious or philosophical reasons (e.g., chastity), material… …
10Salah — For other uses, see Salah (disambiguation) and Salat (disambiguation). Part of a series on Aqidah …
