DEFINITION Cord; A slender flexible anatomical structure (as a nerve) that connects the fetus to the mother. During pregnancy it supplies nutrients and oxygen to your developing baby. After birth, the umbilical cord is no longer needed, so it is clamped and snipped...

INTRODUCTION DEFINITION; This is a complex mix of physical, emotional and behavioural changes that happen in some women after giving birth. According to the DSM-5, a manual used to diagnose mental disorders, postpartum depression is a form of major depression that...

DEFINITION Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), also known as cot death or crib death, is a sudden unexplained death of a child of less than one year of age. SIDS is a diagnosis of exclusion and should be applied to only those cases in which an infant’s death is...