Pu·er'per·al adjective [ Latin puerpera a lying-in woman; puer child + parere to bear: confer French puerpéral .] Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/191
adjective relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974