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Article #261: Pregnancy and Sex Life

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Your changing sex life Her desires
After the elation of finding out your Your wife's desires will go up and down
wife's pregnant, you'll likely find and can vary from trimester to trimester.
yourself pondering whether everything She may be less inhibited without birth
you've always heard about sex and babies control, more intimate with you due to
is true. Will you still be as turned on your new responsibility, and more sexy
by your wife during and after pregnancy? because of her filled out shape. For your
Will sex during pregnancy make either of sake, we'll hope for this scenario. On
you too worried about hurting the baby to the other hand, she may spend a lot of
enjoy yourself? Will your wife be as the first trimester vomiting. She may
sexually motivated as she was while you feel more maternal and less sexual, or
were trying to get pregnant? The only she may just feel fat and unattractive.
thing certain is that your sex life will Baby safety
change. The cold hard facts are that you Everyone worries at least a little bit
will likely be having less sex from now about sex hurting the baby. It's hard not
on, a condition that extends beyond the imagine pushing deep into the baby's
birth of your new baby. Most of this is temporary home with every thrust. Your
never discussed between dads, unless with baby is safe, however, within a cushioned
a knowing wink or a pained joke. amniotic fluid-filled sac. There is very
Your desires little risk to your baby unless you're
In the first trimester, you might feel having very rough sex.
hornier than ever. You'll feel closer to What you can do
your wife than ever before. You may feel As with most issues within a
a strange pride that people will know relationship, the best thing you can do
that you're responsible for the baby is talk about your needs and desires. You
growing insider her. On the other hand, may have to take the lead to try new
pregnancy may create some contradictions. positions and other options since
You now will be having sex with a mom, traditional positions may become too
which might seem less than sexy to you. painful or uncomfortable in the last
More likely, however, is that your wife's months. Whatever makes your mate the most
increasingly full and curvy form will comfortable is your best chance at having
seem more erotic to you. a sex life through the third trimester.






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