SEX AND PREGNANCY: TURN MAN ON OR OFF
Pregnancy can turn a man on or off. Jim told me, During our first pregnancy I just couldn’t cope with the idea of having intercourse. It wasn’t that I found Tanya unattractive, it was just that the first few times we tried it after we found out she was pregnant, I kept imagining this little person inside being bumped around like a punching bag, and I was afraid of hurting it. I felt like I was intruding. Tanya worried about Jim’s lack of interest. It was impossible to convince him that he wasn’t actually hurting the baby. I think he knew but he couldn’t overcome it, so sex was virtually non-existent with the first pregnancy. I wouldn’t have minded so much except he stopped any sort of intimacy, so at times I felt quite neglected. Now I”m pregnant again and he hasn’t lost his sex drive at all this time but because we have a toddler who won’t sleep through the night, that”s getting in the way now.
Although it is a really common concern for both men and women, in the vast majority of cases sex does absolutely no harm to the mother or the unborn baby.
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