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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
postpartum
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
depression
▪ Typically a woman experiences either postpartum blues, caused by hormonal changes, or postpartum depression, caused by a chemical imbalance.
▪ At least her unconsummated marriage and her postpartum depression, functioning almost as symbols, suggest her deep uneasiness with sexuality.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
postpartum exhaustion
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Almost all hospitals have regularly scheduled tours of the labor and delivery area and the postpartum divisions.
▪ At least her unconsummated marriage and her postpartum depression, functioning almost as symbols, suggest her deep uneasiness with sexuality.
▪ Typically a woman experiences either postpartum blues, caused by hormonal changes, or postpartum depression, caused by a chemical imbalance.
▪ We urge parents to plan ahead for postpartum home help.
Wiktionary
postpartum

a. (qualifier: of a mother) after giving birth alt. (qualifier: of a mother) after giving birth

WordNet
postpartum

adj. occurring immediately after birth; "postnatal development" [syn: postnatal] [ant: prenatal, perinatal]

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Usage examples of "postpartum".

This postpartum abortion scheme and the abortion laws before it where the unborn child had no legal rights -- it was removed like a tumor.

Well, he thought, with the postpartum abortions taking place in every county in the U.

It could well have been the usual postpartum blues that many new mothers get.

And then, quite suddenly, there had been her postpartum coldness after the birth of Bjorn.

Even though I am well aware that I have a typical case of postpartum syndrome, I have been unable to relieve my feelings of depression.

The first indication of emotional problems came when Beatrice's postpartum depression required the attention of a psychiatrist.

She has a history of two apparent suicide attempts following postpartum depression fifty-three years ago.

And your aunt Lydia tells me some crap about postpartum depression and how it was a traumatic birth, and a load of psychological nonsense, but I know my sister, I know the look she's got.

And once the postpartum depression lifted, the weight I woke up to every morning didn't seem quite so heavy.

There's going to be postpartum depression next week when she goes to take this one back.