{"id":3469,"date":"2016-01-20T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4thtrimester.web.unc.edu\/?p=270"},"modified":"2017-08-28T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:37:41","slug":"moms-deserve-better-care-in-the-4th-trimester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mombaby.org\/2016\/moms-deserve-better-care-in-the-4th-trimester\/","title":{"rendered":"Moms deserve better care in the 4th Trimester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wb-details\">Posted at NICHQ.org on January 20, 2016, by Alison Stuebe<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-271 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/4thtrimester.web.unc.edu\/files\/2016\/11\/200x200_Social_Alison-Stuebe.png\" alt=\"200x200_social_alison-stuebe\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>In the weeks following childbirth, mothers must adapt to plunging hormones,\u00a0recover from birth and learn how to feed and care for a new infant. Amid these challenges, moms receive minimal support from the healthcare system. Postpartum visits are typically scheduled four to six weeks after birth, leaving moms to cope on their own for more than a month. In 1975, childbirth educator Shelia Kitzinger\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/1038570\" target=\"_blank\">argued<\/a>\u00a0that moms need more in the weeks following birth:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a fourth trimester to pregnancy, and we neglect it at our peril. It is a transitional period of approximately three months after birth, particularly marked after first babies, when many women are emotionally highly vulnerable, when they experience confusion and recurrent despair, and during which anxiety is normal and states of reactive depression commonplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nichq.org\/blog\/2016\/january\/fourth_trimester\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted at NICHQ.org on January 20, 2016, by Alison Stuebe In the weeks following childbirth, mothers must adapt to plunging hormones,\u00a0recover from birth and learn how to feed and care for a new infant. Amid these challenges, moms receive minimal support from the healthcare system. Postpartum visits are typically scheduled four to six weeks after&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mombaby.org\/2016\/moms-deserve-better-care-in-the-4th-trimester\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&#x2192;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Moms deserve better care in the 4th Trimester - UNC Collaborative for Maternal &amp; Infant Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mombaby.org\/2016\/moms-deserve-better-care-in-the-4th-trimester\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Moms deserve better care in the 4th Trimester - UNC Collaborative for Maternal &amp; Infant Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Posted at NICHQ.org on January 20, 2016, by Alison Stuebe In the weeks following childbirth, mothers must adapt to plunging hormones,\u00a0recover from birth and learn how to feed and care for a new infant. 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