What is the Fourth Trimester?
Embracing Liminality’s Elana Baurer can help you integrate this new baby into your family and help the family recalibrate and find balance.
As a postpartum doula, my goal is to give families with newborns support and nurture through hands-on help, encouragement, and resources/information. I believe that an anti-racist and anti-capitalist approach to birth work empowers people of all genders, sizes, trauma histories, and family structures.
It is an honor to be part of the vulnerable and powerful time also called the “fourth trimester,” helping the birthing parent heal and the whole family transition into its new identity as a unit that includes a new person!
Our work together will look different depending on your needs and your family’s needs. We can work together to decide what makes the most sense for you and how I can best support you in this journey.
If you are someone with a marginalized identity that I don’t share, and you prefer to work with someone who does, contact me and I will do my absolute best to connect you to resources that meet your needs, free of charge.
The fourth trimester, or immediate time period after welcoming a new baby to your family, is a liminal time for all family members.
Welcoming a new person into your family is joyful and stressful. Letting go of traditions and routines, while building new ones can be daunting, even if you have tried to prepare for it. As your postpartum doula, I can be an essential guide for you, your partner, your coparent, your children, or anyone else in your family unit in this time of profound transition. I can provide evidence-based support and advice to help you meet your goals and set the tone you want for your home and your family.