How to Use postnatal in a Sentence

postnatal

adjective
  • Its postnatal curing consisted of a couple hours’ out back in the heat.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 18 July 2021
  • Delivery and postnatal care come with charges for parent and baby.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Yet postnatal tests showed that the baby had 23 normal pairs of chromosomes.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
  • There are even classes geared toward families as well as pre and postnatal offerings.
    — Sam Gutierrez, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Hormonal changes could explain fathers’ weight gain as well as their pre- and postnatal depression.
    — Ariel Ramchandani, The Atlantic, 3 June 2021
  • This postnatal vitamin was formulated by a team of ob-gyns and doulas to support your body up to five years after birth.
    — Kristine Thomason, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • France, for example, offers postnatal pelvic floor therapy to new mothers.
    — Rina Raphael, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • The first chapter is a postnatal depression questionnaire filled out with discursive irony.
    — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The program's goal is to lessen drive times for families seeking prenatal, delivery and postnatal care.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • 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
  • The findings don’t mean the blob itself is comparable to a postnatal brain, Pașca cautions.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 22 Feb. 2021
  • According to the study, 55% of the need for midwives is for antenatal, childbirth and postnatal care.
    — Alice Broster, Forbes, 11 May 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
  • 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
  • The policies vary, but most states provide some amount of prenatal and postnatal coverage, and hospitals can be reimbursed for births as well.
    — Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 31 Mar. 2026
  • That’s the only drama at the party, other than Nia having to go to the party bus to feed her baby, sporting the world’s most adorable postnatal faux-hawk.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Boram has launched pilot programs with private companies that may be willing to offer postnatal retreats as a perk to lure and retain employees.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 May 2024
  • 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
  • Many women are giving birth with no or minimal pre- and postnatal care, increasing the risk of preventable maternal and child mortality.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Kailey has a prenatal and postnatal barre certification, so viewers can feel supported doing this barre workout in the comfort of their home.
    — Emily Shiffer, SELF, 6 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The team behind the research noted that many of these genes are tied to developmental delay, which may have played a role in the slower pace of postnatal brain growth in humans compared to chimpanzees.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • That same book helped fellow British cookbook author Diana Henry through her postnatal depression.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019

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