"perinatal infant" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when referring to a baby who has been born prematurely or has a low birth weight. For example, "The doctor monitored the perinatal infant closely to ensure that its health was not compromised."
Her mother is the director of perinatal, infant and pediatric services at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md., and is an assistant professor of nursing at the Marymount University School of Health Professions in Arlington, Va.
To investigate the extent and risk factors for hypotension among women undergoing elective cesarean section, and whether maternal hypotension has any impact on perinatal infant outcome.
We are interested in studies reporting perinatal, infant and paediatric health outcomes that are known to be influenced by antenatal or postnatal tobacco smoke exposure.
These data show a strong resemblance to Flechsig's (Flechsig 1920) survey of perinatal infant myelogenesis, re-rendered in the top left inset of Figure 2.
There were 14 malformations, stillbirths, and perinatal infant deaths in the not-planning versus five in the planning group (P = 0.07).
The effects of family planning on maternal, perinatal, infant, and child health have been established through a systematic review of causal mechanisms (1).
Full-term LBW and adverse outcome of perinatal infants were significantly correlated.
The authors have mentioned that this issue was addressed at an international conference, which was focused at reducing maternal and perinatal-infant morbidity and mortality.
"Once a month I sit in a room with a number of other experts reviewing the misery of individual cases of perinatal and infant death in WA.
Mortality statistics 1990, perinatal and infant: social and biological factors (Series DH3 No 24); HMSO; pounds 10.10.
Yet despite their confidence in the robustness of their data, presenting the preliminary results at the first ever meeting of the International Society for the Prevention and Investigation of Perinatal and Infant Deaths in March 1989 was a nerve-racking moment.
