The right to safe pregnancy and childbirth.... States Parties shall ensure to women appropriate services in connection with pregnancy, confinement and the postnatal postnatal /post·na·tal/ (-na´t'l) occurring after birth, with reference to the newborn. post·na·tal adj. Of or occurring after birth, especially in the period immediately after birth. period, granting free services (O.Eng. Law) such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. See also: Free where necessary, as well as adequate nutrition during pregnancy and lactation lactation Production of milk by female mammals after giving birth. The milk is discharged by the mammary glands in the breasts. Hormones triggered by delivery of the placenta and by nursing stimulate milk production. . Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women--Article 12 (2): http://www.un.org/ womenwatch/daw/cedaw/text/econvention.htm |
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