puerperium

The state of a woman during childbirth or immediately thereafter.

The approximate six-week period lasting from childbirth to the return of normal uterine size.

The puerperal state.

The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.

time period following childbirth when the mother’s uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved