Postpartum Intimacy

Have you given birth recently or long ago?

Can you relate to this when it comes to resuming sex post clearance by your doctor?

Sex after birth should not be painful or intolerable. Six weeks is not a magic number. When you feel ready is your decision and depends on many factors such as your trauma during birth, how rested you feel down there.

Not feeling aroused - Here is the science behind it!

While you are nursing, you are filled with a hormone called prolactin which suppresses estrogen and estrogen is a key hormone when it comes to vaginal lubrication and libido. The reality is your libido is suppressed and you not wanting intimacy for sometime post childbirth of your child is normal.

Some surprising truths about postpartum sex…

It’s normal & common to not feel into it after giving birth. It probably won’t feel good at first.

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Here is what few mothers say about their return to intimacy after childbirth.

“ After my son’s difficult birth experience I would get turned off if my husband accidentally touched my cesarean scar! It was still sensitive and took me right back to the OR. It took so long to have good sex after his birth"

“Being exhausted most of the time gave me ZERO sex drive. I thought my body is only meant to be a mother now and I don’t get to enjoy anything else.

I wish I knew how common these feelings are”

“ I had multiple stitches around my perineum and it was a painful experience for me to return to sex. I don't find it pleasurable anymore. I wish someone can help me regain my strength down there and make me feel comfortable “

Every woman has the right to feel at home in her postpartum body without any dysfunction.

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