The Fourth Trimester

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

By: Kimberly Ann Johnson

Narrated by: Kimberly Ann Johnson

Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

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. 

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2017 Kimberly Ann Johnson (P)2018 Random House Audio

Highly recommended!

I am a holistic doctor and do a lot of emotion work with clients. I have had a lot to learn though about the birthing process and postpartum period through my own first pregnancy and this book has been such a great resource! Thank you Kimberly for sharing your experience and all these valuable insights to help prepare us new mothers for the fourth trimester.

Wish hard been read by someone else

Great information, unfortunately I found the author/reader’s voice immature and not complimenting to the content.

good book but some of the information ...

is a good book but it becomes very repetitive, it didn't need to be that long since she repeats the same over and over.

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.

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!

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.

This Book is a Gem!

My heart swells thinking of the contents of this book. Kimberly has created a guide to recognizing the magic of the human experience of birth, without the added "WOO". It is practical, comforting and thorough in its organization of information and breadth of knowledge. I do give this book a WOO HOO! as it has vindicated my personal instincts and hunches about my future birthing experience and soon to be mama-hood. I am so thankful for this woman. I look forward to creating my fourth trimester sanctuary and trusting myself to tell people "NO" when I need, without guilt and to ask for help when I need, without guilt. l look forward to the opportunity to practice these arts and feel prepared and supported by the words in this book.

I'm so glad that Kimberly decided to read her own book. I feel like a friend is reading to me and I feel connected to her and the words and absorb information in a way I probably would not have if I read this. The PDF visuals and worksheets are pleasing to look at and thorough also.

WELL DONE!

Important Insight into Postpartum

Almost every mom I talk to says the same thing. 'I was not prepared for how hard the first couple months after birth would be.' Even the MOST prepared, home-birth, hippie mamas didn't know how hard the fourth trimester would be. And that's what Kimberly Ann Johnson has to tell you about. It's an important and useful book. She's professional and spirited! Her pace is a little slow for my listening pleasure. But I've recommended to all the mom's to be in my life.