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The Fourth Trimester

About The Fourth Trimester · Hillcrest, San Diego

Devika Raman is a certified doula and has been at something over four hundred births. Marisol Okafor has taught prenatal movement since 2016. Between them they run one warm room in Hillcrest with a changing table, a kettle and a floor you can put a baby on, and three things happen in it every week.

What none of it is, and we would rather say so on the front page than in the small print: this is not care. Nothing here replaces a midwife, answers for a doctor, or tells you how your birth or your baby will go. It is a room, an hour, and other people at the same point in the same year — which turns out to be the thing that is hardest to find and easiest to underestimate.

Known for

  • A room built for the body that is actually in it
  • Certified people, and the certificates on file
  • Not one claim about how it will go

Hosted by The Fourth Trimester

A partner's hands resting on a pregnant belly.
Hillcrest

Movement & Well-Being · Family-friendly

Birth Partner Circle: Prepare for Labor Together

Evenings for expecting couples to learn how labor works, practice hands-on comfort measures, and write a birth plan together.

$130 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr 30 min a session
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Hillcrest

Living Cultures · Family-friendly · Ultra-local

New Mom Village Circle: Meet Other Mothers, Baby in Arms

A judgment-free circle for new mothers with babies in arms. Talk through birth, sleep and feeding, and leave with local mothers you can call.

$65 per monthOnce a week · 1 hr 30 min a session
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Hillcrest

Movement & Well-Being · Family-friendly

Bump Strong Circle: Move Gently Through Pregnancy

An hour of gentle prenatal movement in Hillcrest, adjusted to your trimester, with labor positions you get to practice.

$50 per monthOnce a week · 1 hr a session