The Fourth Trimester : : a Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality

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Call Number: 155.6 Jo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Health & Fitness / Pregnancy & Childbirth / Johnson, Kimberly
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	155.6 Jo	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Health & Fitness / Pregnancy & Childbirth / Johnson, Kimberly	4-week checkout	Due 05-22-2024

Preparing for the fourth trimester -- Savoring the fourth trimester -- Beyond the fourth trimester -- Conclusion: continuing the revolution.
A holistic, practical guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels. Pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum offer women some of the most emotionally enriching and satisfying experiences of their life. But many women entering motherhood are shocked at their lack of preparation or awareness about what that actually means for their bodies, minds, spirits, and relationships. Kimberly Johnson, a doula, post-partum recovery expert, and yoga instructor has created a wise and supportive illustrated guide that offers women a roadmap to this very important transition that can last a few months--or even a few years. She draws from her vast professional experience, as well as her own personal experience, and also a number of disciplines including Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, yoga, herbal medicine, energetics, and traditional (folk) remedies, among others, to create a truly rich and holistic guide. The book offers advice for pregnant women on how to prepare their body for birth; how to organize themselves and their households for the best possible transition to motherhood; simple practices to facilitate healing and restore energy; and how to strengthen relationships and aid the return to sex. Johnson also explores the complex and often conflicting emotions that arise post-partum, and explores the profound nature of childbirth and new motherhood. She helps women contextualize their experience and tap into the spiritual opportunities it can provide.

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Unique offering in the postpartum space, with some caveats. submitted by speitzme on September 6, 2023, 9:16pm This book has some powerful, deep, and unique material on the fourth trimester especially around processing your birth story, processing birth trauma, and exploring your sexuality after baby. Minus one star for strong heteronormativity and some weird stuff about how supposedly biologically women just have to be more in tune with the baby and thus you're doomed to have unequal gender norms and division of labor after birth and you should be happy about that somehow. Worth a read if you are able to take what you need and leave the rest.