I just finished reading Kimberly Ann Johnson's guide to the postpartum period, "The Fourth Trimester: a postpartum guide to healing your body, balancing your emotion, and restoring your vitality," which was published in December 2017. The main focus of this book is that there is much more to the postpartum period than taking care of newborn babies and that there is an urgent need for us to reframe it as a period of great transition and healing for new mothers. We need to brin

I was not prepared for the postpartum period after having my first child.