How to Use postnatal in a Sentence

postnatal

adjective

• But the results of postnatal surgery were mixed: most children could not walk and had other problems.
  — Denise Grady, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
• Its postnatal curing consisted of a couple hours’ out back in the heat.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 18 July 2021
• The maternity unit in the Lindo Wing consists of 16 rooms: five for labor and 11 for postnatal care.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Yet postnatal tests showed that the baby had 23 normal pairs of chromosomes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
• While not all celebrities get the same kind of push present, on average, their postnatal gifts tend to be on the more lavish and extravagant side.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Married and a mom of three boys, Cindy focuses most of her time on pre- and postnatal clients and stay-at-home and working moms, helping them achieve their fitness goals.
  — SELF, 5 Nov. 2019
• According to the study, 55% of the need for midwives is for antenatal, childbirth and postnatal care.
  — Alice Broster, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• The researchers speculate that many of the deaths that take place in the first week may be caused by sudden unexpected postnatal collapse.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
• For instance, at about nine or 10 months, the cells became more like postnatal neurons than prenatal ones.
  — Claudia Dreifus, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• Price said law firms also are on the leading edge of providing benefits that include pre- and postnatal care.
  — Connor Pittman, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2020
• The findings don’t mean the blob itself is comparable to a postnatal brain, Pașca cautions.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 22 Feb. 2021
• One of them would be to improve prenatal care and the other is indeed to improve postnatal care, but also to support families.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2022
• But after nine months, the organoid astrocytes reached a more mature state, resembling what Barres had observed in postnatal brain cells.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
• Even species with more conventional egg-laying approaches, where the female attaches a sticky egg mass to a coral branch, a sponge, or a rock, provide those eggs with postnatal care.
  — Jennifer Hayes, National Geographic, 23 May 2019
• According to People, the maternity unit consists of 16 rooms: five for labor and 11 for postnatal care.
  — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 5 Oct. 2018
• Also, the new laws of the Governments of the U.N. will take care of things like nutrition, housing, and other postnatal care of you and yours, so there will be nothing left to do except be devoted to the service of your fellow men.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• There had been no discussion of the services that black women needed most, such as fibroid-tumor screenings, mammograms, and pre- and postnatal care.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• Moms are being discharged from hospitals more and more quickly to reduce the possibility of exposure to the virus, forced to forgo round-the-clock postnatal care.
  — Anna Schuettge, Time, 22 Apr. 2020
• In parallel experiments in mice and monkeys, the researchers plan to test versions of therapy for both postnatal and in utero treatment.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
• There are even classes geared toward families as well as pre and postnatal offerings.
  — Sam Gutierrez, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2022
• Hormonal changes could explain fathers’ weight gain as well as their pre- and postnatal depression.
  — Ariel Ramchandani, The Atlantic, 3 June 2021
• There's evidence that singing to their babies can improve parents' well-being and self-esteem, and even stave off postnatal depression.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 6 Sep. 2022
• Understanding what happens to the brain is essential for postnatal care for the mother as well, since postpartum depression has been linked to hormonal changes in the brain.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
• The mothers with autism in the survey were more likely to report prenatal and postnatal depression compared with a group of 91 typical women raising at least one child with autism.
  — Sarah Deweerdt, The Atlantic, 18 May 2017
• Parent and me (0-5 years) yoga, tween, teen, adult, family, dads only, family, special needs, prenatal, postnatal• First class is free.
  — Dawn Antis, Orange County Register, 24 Apr. 2017
• The first chapter is a postnatal depression questionnaire filled out with discursive irony.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• The memoir’s title derives from a nickname that Ms. Blair was given in infancy, a reference to a postnatal glower that seemingly wouldn’t quit.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• Committee members amended the bill to require the state to cover prenatal, delivery and postnatal care costs if the mother does not have health insurance, as long as the mother resides legally in the U.S.
  — Vivian Jones, Washington Examiner, 22 Jan. 2021
• To play the role, the ever-gorgeous and fit Charlize Theron (who in real life, is a busy mom of two children via adoption) had to gain 50 pounds of excess weight in order to accurately depict what a real postnatal body looks like.
  — NBC News, 4 May 2018
• Pregnant women have their prenatal and postnatal checks.
  — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024