A Guided Communication Journal for New Parents, Families & Support Teams

The fourth trimester can be beautiful, exhausting, emotional, and completely overwhelming. Your family is adjusting to a new baby, new routines, new responsibilities, and a new version of everyday life.

The Fourth Trimester Playbook was created to help you navigate that transition with more communication, clarity, connection, and intention.

This guided journal gives families a practical space to check in, talk through challenges, divide responsibilities, recognize mental load, rebuild routines, and create household systems that actually work.

Whether your family includes co-parents, partners, grandparents, caregivers, chosen family, or a trusted support person, this playbook is designed to adapt to your unique household.

Inside You'll Find:

• Guided communication prompts for the early weeks
• Mental load and household responsibility audits
• Family task and responsibility mapping
• Weekly and monthly check-ins
• Conversation and conflict-repair scripts
• Intimacy and connection reflections
• Sleep, self-care, and burnout check-ins
• Household SOP and routine-building pages
• Year-one family reflection prompts
• Quick-reference scripts for difficult conversations

This isn't about creating a perfect family or a perfect routine.

It's about creating a household where everyone knows they are supported, heard, and part of the team.

All Families. All Kinds of Love. One Team.

The Fourth Trimester Playbook

By Lashae Reid

The Unified Household CEO™