4th trimester Archives - Barbara Buckner Suárez

ACOG: Optimizing Postpartum Care

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, ACOG, activism

Well, it’s about time! I always have this reaction when ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) publishes a new Committee Opinion that, even though it’s a step in the right direction, should have been the standard decades ago… This move has...

I Love a Good Conference…

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester

I was at an all-day conference over the weekend that focused on body positivity -a touchy subject for most women, especially those whose bodies have been transformed by pregnancy and birth. There’s so much pressure for us to return to – acting, working, looking,...

Sex Life? What Sex Life? Part II

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, changes, connection, couple, differences, expectation, love, ready, reality, relationship, sex, trust, vulnerability

As mentioned in an earlier post, Sex Life? What Sex LIfe? Part I, there are many factors that can conspire to make postpartum sex a little bit tricky to initiate. But the good news is there’s only one thing necessary to have a lasting and healthy sexual relationship:...

Sex Life? What Sex Life? PART I

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, expectation, ready, reality, relationship, sex, transition

I looked through all of my old posts thinking I must have written about postpartum sex on my blog, and even though the search term “sex” yielded 10 posts (!), none of them was specifically about postpartum sex. How can this be? It’s one of my all-time favorite topics...

The Eyes Have It

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, changes, Childbirth Education, expectation, newborn, parenting, ready, reality, teaching, transformation, vulnerability

There’s an article that I just read from the BBC about a project called “One Day Young” from London photographer, Jenny Lewis, who for the past seven years has been capturing a stolen moment in time in the lives of new mother/baby pairs within 24 hours of birth....

Letting Go

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, development, expectation, milestones, parenting, process, ready

I just got back from taking my “baby” to get her driver’s permit. She passed! And now I have to decide what emotion I’m feeling after paying the $32.50 that was required for her to smile for a photo that allows her to legally get behind the wheel of an automobile. Is...