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

Author: Kimberly Ann Johnson

Series: Shambhala

Narrator: Kimberly Ann Johnson

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/22/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

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

About Kimberly Ann Johnson

KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON is the author of the classic early mothering book, The Fourth Trimester, and has spent the past twenty years working with people and their bodies as a sexological bodyworker, somatic experiencing practitioner, yoga teacher, and birth doula. She specializes in helping women heal from birth injuries, gynecological trauma and sexual boundary violations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on November 03, 2021

I didn't finish the whole thing because it drove me too crazy. There's maybe ten or twenty pages of good advice in here buried among all the woo woo stuff, but my patience for finding it ran out. TLDR: allow yourself to rest and accept help.......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on October 10, 2019

I would not recommend this book for everyone. It may be worth reading so as to prepare for all the "what ifs" you may ask yourself about birth and healing (emotionally and physically). The book is meant to be read both during pregnancy as well as during the fourth trimester as a guide for the transi......more

Goodreads review by Laura on January 29, 2019

There were some minimally helpful chapters, but overall I found this book to be anxiety inducing for an expectant mother. There is so much emphasis on what can go wrong in a birth, and the suggested approaches for combating these issues do not seem to be rooted in science. A little too far out there......more

Goodreads review by Mike & Brittni on February 04, 2024

Exhaustive to all topics postpartum, inclusive of most experiences birth and postpartum, and thorough to anything you could need to know. Personally I did not enjoy this book. The author is more spiritually inclined to new age practices and mindsets that made me take most information with a grain of......more

Goodreads review by Meredith on June 30, 2021

This book was a bit all over the place for me. I went to it for ideas on how to approach the fourth trimester but ended up feeling bombarded with a lot of content around pregnancy and birth that was random and unsettling. I struggled to figure out where the book would go next - it jumped around from......more

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