perinatal = “occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after)” (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)

Perinatal Death Low with Home Births

By Nancy Walsh, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Published: August 31, 2009 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, [...]