How to Use fourth trimester in a Sentence

fourth trimester

noun
  • Hormone changes trigger symptoms that can outlast the fourth trimester.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The fourth trimester is a season of recovery, adjustment, and a whole bunch of learning.
    — Emily Glover, Parents, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Heightened sense of smell Just like during pregnancy, in the fourth trimester, your sense of smell can be heightened.
    — Dory Zayas, Parents, 28 May 2026
  • Diving deeper, a bunch of biomarkers that shift during pregnancy may also take longer than a fourth trimester to level back out.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Lightweight Layers Having access to a quick-and-comfortable layer is an essential part of your fourth trimester wardrobe.
    — Emily Glover, Parents, 9 Dec. 2025
  • And, while the fourth trimester ends at 12 weeks, PPD and other mental health concerns can occur anytime in the year following birth.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The other experienced how threadbare the safety net is during the fourth trimester when Medicaid coverage ended the day after giving birth to her first child.
    — Danielle Atkinson, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2025
  • After months of beautiful, thick tresses thanks to those pregnancy hormones, shedding and changes in hair texture are inevitable as our estrogen levels drop and our body deals with the grueling fourth trimester.
    — Claire West, Parents, 14 Feb. 2026

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