A low-key guide to sex for new parents
Most women see their birth care provider six weeks after delivery to see how things are going down there, and many people (and doctors) view this visit as the ?sex clearance? checkup. If your vagina or incision look sufficiently healed, then you and your partner are free to go about having all the wild sex you have spent the last six weeks daydreaming about. And, to be fair, if you have, and your provider gives you the A-okay, who am I to stand in your way" But on the off chance that getting down is the last thing on your mind right now, I am here to offer some reassuring perspective and baby steps forward.
If your body still doesn?t feel ready
?Everyone?s recovery is totally different,? says Michigan sex therapist Sarah Watson. ?Your body has been through the most enormous change in your life. So, to only give yourself six weeks to return to your pre-pregnancy sex life is a little unreasonable.?
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What to do if you're just not into sex after baby If sex is the last thing on your mind
?At six weeks, you?re probably up every two to three hours. You?re not taking a shower every day, and you?re probably feeling overwhelmed,? says Watson. ?You may not have had any time to think about feeling sexy, and that?s okay, because your whole focus has b...
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