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What is a puerperium?

What is a puerperium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
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There is always a possibility of collapse in the third stage or during the puerperium.
Clean walls, clean floors, and a scrupulously clean bed must be maintained throughout the puerperium.
Common predisposing factors that require prophylaxis include surgery, immobilisation, pregnancy and the puerperium, and oral contraception.
Social support, life events, and depression during pregnancy and the puerperium.
In addition, maternal deaths due to pregnancy and childbirth and during puerperium amounted to 0.01 per 100,000 women of childbearing age.
It was carried out the hormonal clinical study of puerperium in this race, being determined the signs and predominant clinical symptoms in the different puerperium stages, in both seasons of the year.

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