Here is a myth so embedded in how we talk about having a baby that most people don't even recognise it as a myth. "Recovery takes about six weeks." It doesn't. For most women, full physical recovery from childbirth takes anywhere from six weeks to six months, and that's before we begin to address the emotional, psychological, and social dimensions, which have their own timeline entirely. Let's be clear about what the body is actually doing. The fourth trimester (the first 12