Postpartum Period

"Postpartum Period" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

Definition | Details | More General Concepts | Related Concepts | More Specific Concepts

In females, the period that is shortly after giving birth (PARTURITION).

Descriptor ID	D049590
MeSH Number(s)	G08.686.702
Concept/Terms	Postpartum Period Postpartum Period Period, Postpartum Postpartum Postpartum Women Postpartum Women Women, Postpartum Puerperium Puerperium

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Postpartum Period".

Biological Sciences [G]
Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena [G08]
Reproductive Physiological Phenomena [G08.686]
Postpartum Period [G08.686.702]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Postpartum Period".

Postpartum Period
Lactation

publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Postpartum Period" by people in this website by year, and whether "Postpartum Period" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 82 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2021

To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.

Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	0	1	1
2003	2	0	2
2004	0	1	1
2005	1	1	2
2007	3	0	3
2008	1	0	1
2009	3	1	4
2010	1	1	2
2011	3	3	6
2012	1	0	1
2013	2	1	3
2014	0	1	1
2015	2	2	4
2016	2	4	6
2017	0	2	2
2018	2	3	5
2019	4	2	6
2020	2	2	4
2021	1	8	9
2022	2	5	7
2023	0	4	4
2024	3	3	6
2025	0	2	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Postpartum Period" by people in Profiles.

Hurwitz E, Meltzer-Brody S, Butzin-Dozier Z, Patel RC, Elhadad N, Haendel MA. Unlocking the Potential of Wear Time of a Wearable Device to Enhance Postpartum Depression Screening and Detection: Cross-Sectional Study. JMIR Form Res. 2025 May 23; 9:e67585.

View in: PubMed
Badon SE, Oberman N, Ramsey M, Quesenberry CP, Kurtovich E, Gomez Chavez L, Brown SD, Albright CL, Bhalala M, Avalos LA. Effect of a Tailored eHealth Physical Activity Intervention on Physical Activity and Depression During Postpartum: Randomized Controlled Trial (The Postpartum Wellness Study). JMIR Ment Health. 2025 May 22; 12:e64507.

View in: PubMed
Levine LD, Friedman AM, Kim YY, Purisch SE, Wen T. Postpartum readmissions among patients with adult congenital heart disease. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2025 Feb; 7(2):101580.

View in: PubMed
Ramsey M, Oberman N, Quesenberry CP, Kurtovich E, Gomez Chavez L, Chess A, Brown SD, Albright CL, Bhalala M, Badon SE, Avalos LA. A Tailored Postpartum eHealth Physical Activity Intervention for Individuals at High Risk of Postpartum Depression-the POstpartum Wellness Study (POW): Protocol and Data Overview for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2024 Oct 29; 13:e56882.

View in: PubMed
Murray M, Kai J, Dentinger A, Kaplan L, Roman M, O'Brien E, Kearney J, Kaneshiro B, Zhu F, Fialkowski MK. Prenatal intention to human milk feed in the native Hawaiian population: predictors of any human milk feeding from birth to six months postpartum. Int Breastfeed J. 2024 08 03; 19(1):54.

View in: PubMed
Krukowski RA, Solomon E, Lang J, Stone E, You W, Burns RE, Copeland C, Bursac Z, Hare ME, Waters TM. Overweight/obesity, gestational weight gain, postpartum weight retention, and maternal/neonatal complications in the military. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2024 05; 32(5):900-910.

View in: PubMed
Hernandez-Green N, Davis MV, Beshara MS, Hernandez-Spalding K, Francis S, Parker A, Farinu O, Chandler R. Examining the Perceptions of mHealth on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Postpartum Health for Black Women: A Scoping Review. Health Promot Pract. 2024 Nov; 25(6):1116-1128.

View in: PubMed
Hernandez-Green N, Davis MV, Farinu O, Hernandez-Spalding K, Lewis K, Beshara MS, Francis S, Baker LJ, Byrd S, Parker A, Chandler R. Using mHealth to reduce disparities in Black maternal health: Perspectives from Black rural postpartum mothers. Womens Health (Lond). 2024 Jan-Dec; 20:17455057241239769.

View in: PubMed
Azad H, Wen T, Bello NA, Booker WA, Purisch S, D'Alton ME, Friedman AM. Peripartum cardiomyopathy delivery hospitalization and postpartum readmission trends, risk factors, and outcomes. Pregnancy Hypertens. 2023 Dec; 34:116-123.

View in: PubMed
P?rez-Mu?oz A, Hare ME, Andres A, Klesges RC, Wayne Talcott G, Little MA, Waters TM, Harvey JR, Bursac Z, Krukowski RA. A Postpartum Weight Loss-focused Stepped-care Intervention in a Military Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Ann Behav Med. 2023 09 13; 57(10):836-845.

View in: PubMed

People

Explore

Similar Concepts

Top Journals