“…Cerebral palsy is also classified as being prenatal, perinatal and postnatal or postneonatal according to the presumed timing of the insult [2,4 -7]. Earlier studies used the definition postnatal cerebral palsy [5,6,8] but later ones, have adopted the term postneonatal cerebral palsy if the damage to the brain took place after the 28th postnatal day [2,7,9]. Two centres participating in the ongoing SPCE study (surveillance of cerebral palsy in Europe), which includes 13 European centres [9] did not register postneonatal cases, and the upper age limit varies from one to seven years.…”