maternity care
Expecting mother's healthcare
Maternity care is medical attention given to women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
It includes prenatal checkups, labor and delivery services, and follow-up care for mother and newborn.
Her insurance covered maternity care through six weeks after delivery.
The term often appears in discussions of healthcare policy and workplace benefits.
- midwifeChildbirth assistance professional
- doulaTrained childbirth support person
- prenatal checkupMedical exam before birth
- ultrasoundInaudible high-frequency waves
- epiduralSpinal numbing injection
birthing center · postpartum depression · cesarean section · baby blues · genetic counseling · skin-to-skin contact · fetal monitoring · baby bump · obstetrician · labor and delivery · gestational diabetes · water breaking · newborn screening · prenatal vitamins · high-risk pregnancy · breastfeeding support · lactation consultant · parenting classes
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- Australian HealthcareMedicare, GP, general practitioner, doctor, hospital
- fertilityfertility, fecundity, infertility, conception, reproduction
- NHSNHS, GP, A&E, 999, 111
- reproductive healthpregnancy, infertility, childbirth, male infertility, fertility rates
- health insurancepremium, deductible, copay, coverage, health insurance card
maternity careend-of-life care
Care for the dying
palliative care · hospice care · geriatric care · terminal care · elder care
maternity caregeriatric care
Medicine for old age
elder care · elderly care · senior healthcare · aged care · pediatrics