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

ISBN: 1611804000

Author: Johnson, Kimberly Ann

Condition: Used

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.