In an effort to keep my foot in the academic world (a necessity as I still work in the NICU of a large teaching hospital and have to do "scholarly" work!) I have drafted an abstract detailing the process of setting up my newborn home visiting practice over the last year. Here is version #1: Background There has been increasing awareness in recent years that new mothers lack adequate support and that the postpartum transition to motherhood, or "fourth trimester," is a critical

I am in the midst of creating a series of posts, like this one, to help new mothers learn all of the following: -that having a new baby is hard work, and that it's this way for the vast majority of us (even if it seems like everyone else has it figured out!) -that there is nothing "wrong" with a new mom if she thinks the postpartum period is more difficult than she anticipated -to not be afraid to reach out and ask for help, be it with housework, or her feeding her baby, or f