The Fourth Trimester

A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality

De: Kimberly Ann Johnson

Narrado por: Kimberly Ann Johnson

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

This holistic audiobook 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.


Includes a bonus PDF with worksheets, illustrations, and recipes

Listening at 3.5 months postpartum!

I wish I knew about this book before I gave birth! This and the First 40 days should be a must read for any pregnant woman's preparation!! Please read for your own sake and health!

I love with this book

A must to read ! I feel so inspired and with a new set of tools

absolutely beautiful.

narrator was very relatable
new profound insight of taking care of your pregnant self or others.
please share to all mothers. I know I will be.

Best pregnancy book

I rarely ever write reviews but I found this book to be so, so helpful on a number of levels. It covers so much territory. I’m still pregnant, and Part 1 has so much good advice for setting mind, body, and relationships up for success. It’s been helpful to understand the range of possibilities that the fourth trimester can bring, and this book has great advice on navigating the changes well. I found the book very comforting to listen to, the author’s voice adds a lot, it felt like having a coffee and getting advice from a good friend. I’ve read a ton of pregnancy/birth/parenting books and this is among my most favorite. I’d recommend to anyone who is pregnant and trying to navigate all the changes that that brings.

Really use full tips you can put into action

I love the content of this book. Thank you Kimberly for writing this! It’s so sad that Americans have lost the generational knowledge of birth. I’m pregnant with my third child and finally seeking out the help and support I will need once the baby arrives. I went straight back to work after my first two with whom I had traumatic hospital births with and felt like I was a rockstar for doing so. Wow, how wrong was I for buying into society’s and feminist’s ideas of what it means to have it all and do it all. This time I’m looking forward to a healing birth with wise midwives in at a birthing center.

I love this book and hope it’s given to every mom at her baby shower with a offer to bring her a meal or clean her house post baby instead of all the meaningless gadgets and onesies and hospital room selfies.

Her message about how moms need to be mothered is so real. I felt that deeply with my first child but had no idea what to ask for or how to put it into words.