15 Questions to Ask Your OBGYN or Midwife About the Fourth Trimester

You may be thinking that a fourth trimester is an oxymoron and you would be right!  Technically this is the first 12 weeks postpartum, a period in which your body is still going through massive changes but your are no longer pregnant.  I had a lactation consultant tell me that once you have a baby you are truly postpartum for the rest of your life but for the purposes of this blog post we will be focused on those initial weeks after delivery.