hey knew of the fourth trimester, a term coined by US paediatrician Harvey Karp referring to the 3 months that babies cry inconsolably every evening.1 The concept of the fourth trimester is that human babies are born less mature than other animals and may need nurturing as if they were in utero (Fig. 1). The mothers tried swaddling and shushing to soothe their babies as suggested in the world according to Karp. And still the babies cried, and the young mothers felt to blame and struggled to cope.
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