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plural puerperia
(obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state. quotations examples
As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.
1921, Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of Nervous Diseases: For Students and Practicing Physicians; In Thirty Lectures, page 84