Day 28 with your newborn
Four weeks together 🌻
Four weeks ago, your baby arrived. A month can feel impossibly long and impossibly short at the same time.
Let yourself notice what you have learned this month. You know more than you did on day one — even if you still have questions every day.
How you might feel
How you might feel
Your body may not feel fully recovered, and that is normal. Six weeks is a checkpoint, not a deadline.
Today's tip
Today's tip
Take a one-month photo or write one sentence about what this month has been like. Honest is better than polished.
Coming up
Coming up
The next two weeks will start moving you toward the six-week check and the end of the earliest postpartum chapter.
Checks and key dates around now
- Register the birthWithin 42 days in England and Wales
This is general information based on NHS guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your midwife, health visitor or GP about anything that worries you. If your baby has a high temperature, isn't feeding or is unusually sleepy, or you're worried about your own bleeding, pain or mood, get advice straight away from NHS 111 or your GP. In an emergency, call 999.