Example sentences of "a few [noun] after birth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate … |
| 2 | Its cochlea , that vital , snail-shaped organ in the inner ear , will have started to degenerate a few days after birth , and the deterioration is completely irreversible . |
| 3 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 4 | Generally , women become familiar quickly with the scent of their infants , and can recognise their baby by smell alone only a few days after birth . |
| 5 | In fact , most damage to breast shape happens during their often rapid growth during pregnancy , then when filling with milk a few days after birth . |
| 6 | Experimental studies have also demonstrated that young babies can separate a continuous stream of speech sounds into discrete phonetic units and that they are sensitive to phonemic changes — for example , the difference between/p/ and/d/ — only a few weeks after birth ( Eimas et al . |
| 7 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |