How to Use perinatal in a Sentence

perinatal

adjective
  • The doctor took steps to prevent perinatal infection.
  • The mummy thus opens up new pathways into the study of perinatal health in the ancient world.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2021
  • The sorrow of perinatal death has even silenced medicine.
    Jen Gunter, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
  • In the study, Schwartz and his team examined 68 perinatal deaths in 12 countries.
    NBC News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Far worse is the toll that perinatal mental-health issues can take on women and their families.
    Katharine Gammon, STAT, 26 June 2023
  • At least 30 of those are suspected to have died from perinatal asphyxia.
    Joseph Hincks, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • New Jersey was the first state to require universal perinatal screening in 2006.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The repercussions of this neglect of perinatal mood disorders are vast.
    Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 26 May 2022
  • The author is a psychotherapist and perinatal mental health expert in San Diego.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Treating perinatal depression is important for the health of both the pregnant person and their baby, according to the NIMH.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Every case is a sentinel event, signaling holes in the health care safety net that must be addressed with the same urgency as the perinatal HIV epidemic 30 years ago.
    Ina Park Reprints, STAT, 23 May 2021
  • The perinatal-loss unit only admits women in week 14 of pregnancy or later.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2020
  • A couple with their newborn baby take shelter in the basement of a perinatal center in Kyiv on Wednesday as air-raid sirens are heard amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
    NBC News, 2 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • For those who would like to learn more about perinatal depression, also known as prenatal depression, scroll on.
    Maria Kari, Glamour, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Both studies are limited to a single health care system, and Gaw noted that the quality of each system has a marked impact on perinatal outcomes.
    Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2020
  • These perinatal exercises can strengthen your pelvic floor and help prevent leaks.
    Alexandra Frost, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Not being able to get to a hospital may force some women to give birth in shelters or in their homes without a medical professional present, which can increase the risk of perinatal death.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • There are perinatal mood disorders where moms may feel overly connected to their baby.
    Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The legislation aims to grow and diversify the perinatal workforce, as well as counter bias and discrimination in care.
    Sarah Weiser, The New Yorker, 13 May 2021
  • The trend of rural hospitals shuttering perinatal services is not new.
    Rachel Fleishman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Some observers have shared their hopes that the case will raise awareness of perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, or PMADs, which affect perhaps one in seven people who give birth.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Sanchez, a perinatal health educator and counselor, asks.
    Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 9 June 2021

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'perinatal.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: