Established in 2016, Tova Health and the Fourth Trimester Newborn & Maternal Care Model were created to rethink how to support newborn and postpartum families.
We provide comprehensive pediatric care for the baby AND maternal support at home during the first 2 months of life. We also hold weekly 4th trimester group visits lead by Dr Zasloff open to current families in the practice to nurture local community.
We have provided care for hundreds of families in the Arlington/Cambridge MA area and have been featured in many publications including the Boston Globe as leaders in this movement supporting postpartum families.
Our home visits allow a family to receive pediatric and maternal care in their home while they are still healing. This can minimize illness exposure and allow a family to rest and recover from the birth experience.
During the fourth trimester postpartum and newborn biology is still connected with one another! By providing care together, we can address issues in a comprehensive way.
We provide primary pediatric care to the newborn during the first 2 months— similar to what is typically done in the doctor’s office (well visits, sick visits, order labs and referrals) AND we provide maternal care by checking in on postnatal wellness, breastfeeding, mood, and general recovery.
We are grateful for Western medicine and also for the wonder of biology and nature! We take a natural approach whenever possible.
We love to continue to learn from the many different traditions around the world that nurture the fourth trimester.
We offer weekly virtual group visits led by Dr. Zasloff for all of the families currently in our practice. It is a time each week when local families can come together and share how they are doing and discuss important fourth trimester topics together.
“The concept of in-home care during the new, wonderful, yet tiring and often overwhelming time in a mother and newborn’s lives, is such a gift. There is a void in the US for mothers postpartum and providing moms the opportunity to stay home after delivering a baby is such an immense help. If I had had this care after a c-section with my first baby, and especially the care from Dr Zasloff - who offers such a warm heart, relatable and caring personality - my experience would have been vastly different. Most other countries in the world have such a support system; why don’t we?”