Unit :7 Management of Normal Purperium Physiological changes during purpureum period: Purperium:Puerperium means the period of 6 weeks (42 days) after child birth in which body tissues specially pelvic organs return to prepregnant stage both anatomically and physiologically is called perperium. Duration:The beginning of the puerperium is about 6 weeks after the placenta is expelled, and the uterus is almost nonpregnant in size.The duration is roughly divided as follows: Early:Up