Fourth Trimester Quotes

Can young babies inadvertently be turned into brats who demand constant holding and attention? Thankfully, the answer to that question is … No! During the first three months of life (the fourth trimester), it’s impossible to spoil your baby by letting her suck or stay in your arms for hours. Does that surprise you? It really shouldn’t when you remember that you were lavishing her with these sensations twenty-four hours a day—up until the moment of birth. Even if you hold your baby twelve hours a day now, it’s a giant reduction from her point of view. What

Rather than limiting postpartum to an arbitrary 6 weeks, many midwives, childbirth educators, and postpartum doulas are encouraging women to see the postpartum as a fourth trimester, thus allowing themselves at least a full 3 months for physical recovery, spiritual integration, and emotional assimilation. Even 3 months, many experts agree, may be too short a time. Many mothers say it was closer to 8 months before they began to feel more settled in their role as mother, and able also to regain a sense of personal identity and clarity.

The first 9 months of a baby's life is often referred to as 'the second 9 months' or 'the fourth trimester

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Even though empathy and nurturing, the feminine traits that are activated in early motherhood, are enormously valuable.. most of us haven’t learned to value them equally with productivity and intellectual prowess.

Humans, having the most complex brains and intricate society, have the most prolonged period of total dependency of any species (Cacioppo & Berntson, 2002). Compared with the young of other primates, human babies are born quite early relative to the maturity of their brains. In fact, the first 3 months of life have sometimes been referred to as the fourth trimester. If we followed the pattern typical for other primates, we would stay inside our mothers for 24 months (Gould,

This final maturation process of the nerves and brain takes place during the first three months of Baby's life - some experts even say it's the first nine months - also known as "The Fourth Trimester". This short period of time is vital for your baby's physical and emotional development. Imagine the shock of emerging from the most peaceful, luxurious warm bath into a cold world as bright and loud as Times Square on New Year's Eve. You can't comprehend what's happened and you can't communicate to anyone about it. Meanwhile, you are being bombarded with stimuli your brain and body are not yet ready to process. It's enough to give a fully-grown adult a panic attack. Without the proper support in the beginning of life, babies can carry that initial anxiety with them throughout their development, ingraining it into their nervous pathways.