Cynthia Gabriel

The Fourth Trimester Companion (eBook, ePUB)

How to Take Care of Your Body, Mind, and Family as You Welcome Your New Baby

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A well-cared-for baby is a baby whose mother is taking care of herself. With this truth at its core, The Fourth Trimester Companion supports your transition to motherhood.

You have probably already read multiple books on pregnancy, childbirth, and infant care as you prepare to become a mother, but have you considered how you are going to care for yourself after your baby is born? With so much focus on the birthing process and the new baby, your own birth as a mother is often overlooked. Doctors, nurses, midwives, and others involved in providing baby care agree that your own transition deserves equal attention, because taking good care of yourself in the first three months of your new baby's life-the fourth trimester-brings crucial benefits for you, for your baby, and for your partner and family.

With this important book, you (as well as your partner and other caregivers, whether lay or professional) now have the resources to have an ideal fourth trimester experience. Cynthia Gabriel, a doula and the author of the best-selling book Natural Hospital Birth, delivers all the information, guidance, and encouragement you need as a new mother to take care of your body, mind, and spirit during the vital months of the fourth trimester-so that you feel your best and so your baby has the best possible chance to thrive.

Find tips, strategies, and advice for:

• Coping with the physical and emotional challenges in the first days and weeks post-partum
• Sleep challenges and solutions for both you and baby
• Self-care, infant care, and infant feeding, including breastfeeding and going back to work
• Navigating your changing relationships with your immediate family, partner, children, parents, in-laws, and pets
• Finding your new, postpartum sex life
• Emotional well-being, including postpartum depression and PTSD

Appreciate the wondrous moments as a new mother and feel less alone with the challenging ones with The Fourth Trimester Companion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard Common Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781558329348
• Artikelnr.: 51228052

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Gabriel is a medical anthropologist, mother of three, and a doula who has attended nearly 100 births. With a PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Post-Doctorate Fellowship from the University of Michigan, Gabriel's research focuses on stress during pregnancy among African American women. She served as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Center for the Childbearing Year, and runs women's and parents' support groups. Gabriel is also the founder of Growing Together, a Life Learning Center that offers psychotherapy and life coaching services in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she resides.