Care drops off at six weeks. The hard part doesn’t.
After the six-week visit, most new moms are on their own. That’s when serious problems like high blood pressure, heart trouble and postpartum depression can show up, and when the everyday questions keep coming.
Moms will tell you what they need. The system just hasn’t been listening.
What you get
- A specialist leading your careLed by a maternal-fetal medicine doctor who knows which complications show up after delivery, and how to catch them.
- Someone who notices, every dayA daily check-in on the app and a connected blood pressure cuff, so warning signs get caught early.
- A team and a community for 12 monthsYour nurse practitioner, lactation, mental health and pelvic floor support, a peer-led group on Zoom and a WhatsApp group of moms.
Your care team
Everyone around you has one job: you. Your nurse practitioner is your point person, and a maternal-fetal medicine specialist leads your care.
- YouAt the center of everything, for 12 months
- Maternal-fetal medicine specialistLeads your care and watches for complications
- Nurse practitionerYour point person, reading your daily check-ins
- Lactation supportHelp with feeding, whatever feeding looks like for you
- Mental health supportFor the big struggles and the everyday ones
- Your moms’ communityA peer-led group on Zoom and a WhatsApp group
- Pelvic floor physical therapistHelps your body heal and get strong again
How your year goes
- Enroll at 37 weeksMeet your nurse practitioner before the baby arrives.
- Go home with your teamYour BP cuff, your daily check-in and your moms’ group, from day one.
- Weeks 0 to 16The hardest stretch, with the most support. Your clinical team is with you the whole way.
- Months 4 to 12Long after usual care has stopped, we’re still here.
- Graduate at month 12A full first year, together.
What we want every mom to be able to say:
“I’m not doing this alone.”
Why I’m building Fourthly
I’m a maternal-fetal medicine specialist. I’ve cared for women through the big struggles after birth, like postpartum depression, and through the many small ones: feeling overwhelmed, alone, and unsure what to do next.
I know which complications show up after delivery and how to catch them. And because I’ve been through my own postpartum journey, I also know what it’s like to be the one who needs help.
Christina Pinnock, MDFounder, Fourthly Health
Give a mom her first year of support
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$5,000 for 12 months of care.
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