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

by Kimberly Ann Johnson

A whole-person guide to postpartum recovery

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A whole-person guide to postpartum recovery

Kimberly Ann Johnson frames postpartum care as a transition involving physical healing, emotional adjustment, relationships, and spiritual life. The guide combines preparation for birth and household support with practical topics such as home remedies, restoring energy, safe exercise, carrying a baby comfortably, and returning to sex. It also addresses the range of emotions that can arise after birth. Drawing on the author’s professional background and on Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and herbalism, the book presents postpartum recovery as a process that may extend beyond the first few months.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People seeking practical guidance on physical recovery and energy after childbirth
  • Expectant parents preparing for household and personal support during the postpartum transition
  • Readers interested in holistic approaches to postpartum care, including traditional healing practices

Themes

Postpartum physical healingEmotional adjustmentRelationships and sexualityHousehold preparation and supportHolistic health practices

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Book overview

A guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels.

This holistic guide offers practical advice to support women through postpartum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels--and provides women with a roadmap to this very important transition that can last from a few months to a few years.

Kimberly Ann Johnson draws from her vast professional experience as a doula, postpartum consultant, yoga teacher, body worker, and women's health care advocate, and from the healing traditions of Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and herbalism--as well as her own personal experience--to cover

- how you can prepare your body for birth;

- how you can organize yourself and your household for the best possible transition to motherhood;

- simple practices and home remedies to facilitate healing and restore energy;

- how to strengthen relationships and aid the return to sex;

- learning to exercise safely postpartum;

- carrying your baby with comfort;

- exploring the complex and often conflicting emotions that arise postpartum;

- and much more.
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