Antenatal means ‘about the medical care a woman gets while she is pregnant, before the baby is born’. Antenatal clinic, antenatal class, antenatal appointment: these are the visits, tests, and classes that check the mother and the baby-to-be. It is a calm hospital word, not slang and not an emotion-word.

Antenatal means意思是about the medical care a woman gets while she is pregnant, before the baby is born女性懷孕、寶寶還沒出生前所接受的醫療照護。Antenatal clinic, antenatal class, antenatal appointment像antenatal clinic產檢門診、antenatal class產前課程、antenatal appointment產檢預約：these are the visits, tests, and classes都是用來檢查媽媽和肚子裡寶寶的門診、檢查和課程that check the mother and the baby-to-be。It is a calm hospital word這是個平靜的醫院用字，not slang and not an emotion-word不是俚語也不是帶情緒的字。

This is the usual term in British English and in a lot of the medical English Taiwan students meet in textbooks. In American English the same idea is almost always prenatal. Both are ‘before’ + natal (‘of birth’).

This is the usual term in British English這是英式英語裡常用的說法，and in a lot of the medical English Taiwan students meet in textbooks也是台灣學生在課本上常碰到的醫學英文用法。In American English在美式英語裡，the same idea is almost always prenatal同樣的概念幾乎都說prenatal。Both are 'before' + natal ('of birth')兩個字都是before之前加上natal出生的組成的。

It is about the time before birth. After the baby arrives, the matching word is postnatal (US also postpartum for the mother’s recovery).

It is about the time before birth它指的是出生之前的那段時間。After the baby arrives寶寶出生之後，the matching word相對應的字is postnatal就是postnatal產後的，US also postpartum for the mother's recovery美式英語講到媽媽產後恢復時也會用postpartum。

It is not about the baby’s name, and natal here is not nation.

It is not about the baby's name它跟寶寶的名字無關，and natal here is not nation而這裡的natal也不是nation國家的意思。