How to Use perinatal in a Sentence

perinatal

adjective
  • The doctor took steps to prevent perinatal infection.
  • But perinatal mental health issues hit me again like a truck.
    — Jenn Davis, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024
  • About one in five moms, or as many as two in five moms can develop a perinatal mood disorder.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The mummy thus opens up new pathways into the study of perinatal health in the ancient world.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2021
  • Silva lives right next door to the parcel of land where the perinatal facility would be built.
    — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Far worse is the toll that perinatal mental-health issues can take on women and their families.
    — Katharine Gammon, STAT, 26 June 2023
  • Birndorf treats, writes and teaches about perinatal mental health.
    — Catherine Birndorf, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Some choose perinatal palliative care in the hope of a peaceful death in the loving arms of family.
    — Abigail Wilpers and Kristen Gosnell, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
  • At least 30 of those are suspected to have died from perinatal asphyxia.
    — Joseph Hincks, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
  • These perinatal exercises can strengthen your pelvic floor and help prevent leaks.
    — Alexandra Frost, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The repercussions of this neglect of perinatal mood disorders are vast.
    — Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 26 May 2022
  • There are perinatal mood disorders where moms may feel overly connected to their baby.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Less than half of rural women live within a half-hour of a hospital that offers perinatal services, the group says.
    — Abby Vesoulis, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
  • For those who would like to learn more about perinatal depression, also known as prenatal depression, scroll on.
    — Glamour, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Arlt is one of many mothers who have struggled through the perinatal period, which is during or soon after pregnancy.
    — Leah Treidler | Kuer, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 June 2022
  • Garfield also founded the first public health survey of fathers in the perinatal period.
    — Ian McMahan, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
  • In the study, Schwartz and his team examined 68 perinatal deaths in 12 countries.
    — NBC News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The trend of rural hospitals shuttering perinatal services is not new.
    — Rachel Fleishman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The perinatal-loss unit only admits women in week 14 of pregnancy or later.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Many perinatal mental health professionals are trained to treat new dads, and there are many who specialize in paternal mental health.
    — Pooja Shah, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Indeed, our paper finds that the rise in mortality was not solely due to perinatal or congenital issues and the time of birth.
    — Brad Greenwood, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Most of us probably did not have a lot of training on recognizing and treating perinatal mood disorders in our training.
    — IndyStar, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Myriad programs across the state support perinatal women at different points along their journey.
    — Mary C. Mayhew, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2026
  • The cause of death was determined to be perinatal asphyxia because of smothering, and the case was classified as a homicide.
    — CBS News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Surgeons are now able to treat unborn children as human beings, and perinatal surgery is expanding rapidly as a medical field.
    — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The author is a psychotherapist and perinatal mental health expert in San Diego.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The perinatal version of the program would require nearly $2 million for Dearborn.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2024
  • My story has a happy ending, but not every case of postpartum depression does—suicide is a leading cause of death in perinatal women.
    — Minhae Shim Roth, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2019
  • The good news, Rope explained, is that all perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are treatable, and there are very effective treatments for all of them.
    — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 11 May 2018
  • New Jersey was the first state to require universal perinatal screening in 2006.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2019

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