prenatal

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

prenatal
    adj 1: occurring or existing before birth; "the prenatal
           period"; "antenatal care" [syn: {prenatal}, {antenatal},
           {antepartum}] [ant: {perinatal}, {postnatal},
           {postpartum}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Prenatal \Pre*na"tal\, a.
   Being or happening before birth.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "prenatal":
      abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, beginning,
      budding, creative, elemental, elementary, embryonic, fetal,
      formative, foundational, fundamental, gestatory, in embryo,
      in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate,
      inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, initial,
      initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, nascent, natal,
      original, parturient, postnatal, pregnant, primal, primary, prime,
      primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, rudimental,
      rudimentary, ur