pre-conception

The concept is known as pre-conception counseling, a form of nurturing care in which you, your partner, and your doctor work together on a program personally tailored to:

Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

More and more new ladies were claiming that the members of first and second row of the entourage had fathered their children, and in the view of an uncompromising anti-abortion legislation (the protection of life from the moment of pre-conception of the male great-grandfather) those were serious accusations.

Rent a DNA 2010

National guidelines state that women with epilepsy of child-bearing age should receive pre-conception counselling.

Legal aid withdrawal means Epilim case likely to be dropped James Meikle 2010

Its deputy chief executive Simon Wigglesworth said: Women of child-bearing age are still prescribed sodium valproate without receiving vital pre-conception counselling to help them decide whether it is the right drug for them.

Legal aid withdrawal means Epilim case likely to be dropped James Meikle 2010

This suggests to me that if/when abortion of all but the ‘best’ fetuses becomes routine (or is displaced by pre-conception genetic engineering), it may start with the alleviation of obvious genetic defects, but it will end with the elimination of an awful lot of interesting human traits that might be considered sub-optimal.

Is Your Fetus Smart Enough to Live? 2007

It was so hyped that I expected it to be terrible, especially given the pre-conception I picked up somewhere about Didion as shallow and vapid.

2008 Book Round-Up (What if No One's Watching?) 2009

Notice when you treat someone based on a stereotype or pre-conception; resolve not to do it again.

Gretchen Rubin: Hungry For Happiness? Here's A Menu Of Resolutions 2009

Seriously, just look at each image without the pre-conception that it's a brilliant piece of art.

Wow, this is possible on an iPod touch or iPhone? | Sync Blog 2009

This is based on the pre-conception that the newspaper of choice of the chattering classes is a pro-Palestinian rag which condones terrorism on the one side while never missing an opportunity to bash the Israeli state.

The Guardian and Tzipi Livni 2009

Until now, however, pre-conception adversity had not been examined.

You Are What Your Mother Worried About William Harryman 2009