What is "antenatal"

Usage examples of "antenatal".

If I was born of you, there must have been some juggling with my soul in antenatal regions!

As often as the fancy had, compelled by the lady herself, crossed the horizon of his thoughts, a repellent influence from the same source had been at hand to sweep it afar into its antenatal chaos.

The very habit of our thoughts may be persuaded one way unawares by their antenatal history.

Now they lived down the road from one another and went to antenatal class together.

They were at the Tuesday-night antenatal class, they lay next to each other on the floor and waited for the relaxation teacher to return from assisting a woman in the Ready-to-Pop class who had gone into premature labor.

Her morning surgery had spread until it had almost overlapped the early afternoon antenatal clinic, and her list of house-calls had lasted right up to the start of evening surgery.

Slateford was an intelligent and well-read woman, whom she was sure would attend the antenatal clinics regularly.

Indeed, beauty was hardly limited to her class, since antenatal gene repair and intelligent nutrition produced handsome folk in every walk of life.

Ruth did not need the doctors in the antenatal clinic to which she travelled once a fortnight on innumerable buses, to tell her that her baby was fit and well, but what about its mental state - its obstinacy?

The rigorous schedule of trips to the clinic and injections and providing samples gave way to antenatal check-ups and relaxation classes.

The flower-beds were edged with box, which diffused around it that dreamy balsamic odor, full of antenatal reminiscences of a lost Paradise, dimly fragrant as might be the bdellium of ancient Havilah, the land compassed by the river Pison that went out of Eden.