Tips for the Fourth Trimester for Mom & Baby

What every mom needs to know about the 4th Trimester As all expectant mothers know, pregnancy consists of three 'trimesters' or terms, each lasting roughly three months. 'The fourth trimester' describes the time from birth until your baby is around three months old. It was first described by British childbirth expert and activist Sheila Kitzinger in the mid-1970s: “There is a fourth trimester to pregnancy, and we neglect it at our peril. It is a transitional period of approximately three months after birth, particularly marked after first babies, when many women are emotionally highly vulnerable, when they experience confusion and recurrent despair, and during which anxiety is normal and states of reactive depression commonplace.”[1] More recently the term has been popularised by American paediatrician and author Dr Harvey Karp, who points out that the fourth trimester is challenging for babies

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