Decoded: The First Year | Episode 63 | The Neurological Programming of the 4th Trimester | Dr SCL
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The fourth trimester. You've heard the phrase. It comes up in books, in birth preparation classes, in the articles people send you, with the best of intentions, when you've just had a baby and are sitting in the fog of the first week wondering what on earth is happening.Usually the term “fourth trimester” is translated as something like: the first three months are hard, your baby still needs womb-like conditions, go easy on yourself.And all of that is true. Genuinely. And worth saying.But today I want to go somewhere that almost nobody takes this conversation. Because the fourth trimester is not just an emotional concept for new mums or a cultural framework for surviving the newborn period. It is THE neurological reality, especially for bub. Your baby arrived with a nervous system that was calibrated — precisely, specifically, over nine months — to an environment that now no longer exists. And understanding exactly what that environment provided, and why its removal matters (which includes the how the environment was removed), gives you something far more useful and practical than "recreate the womb."It gives you the mechanism. And the mechanism tells you what to actually do.
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