Sexuality in Pregnancy

While many cultures and religions have outlawed sex in pregnancy, doctors are now unanimous: sexual fulfillment poses no danger to the mother and her unborn child. Pregnancy should not be for the couple's sexuality a desert of nine months. And more ... if you add in the period following childbirth.

Pregnancy in women induces physical changes and psychological changes everything! Sexuality is a new couple to explore.

During transformations of sexuality continues ...


In addition to relaxation and pleasure-giving, sex is a privileged moment of complicity for the expectant mother and her boyfriend. Physical changes and the new status of expectant parents generate some insecurity; the sexual ressourceront you.



Over the week, sex require some adjustments of comfort: the position face to face becomes increasingly difficult, especially in recent months and we must be imaginative.

Caution! Fluctuating libido ...

Sexual desire of both partners may change over pregnancy. Statistical studies done on this subject show great variability: for some, it does not change, for others it increases, and others, it decreases, it depends ... And what makes the desire to weaken one can increase that of the other. Some men keep a strong desire for their partner, others kept their distance and, temporarily, do not support the idea of approaching a woman becoming a mother. Some women are addressed through their pregnancy and a bit distant from their companion. Understanding and listening are essential. And if sexual desire is not to meet up for one or the other, do not deprive yourself for as many games sensual caresses and massages that will end with sexual caresses for the person who wants .

Unfounded fears

Sometimes one of the partners, because of the proximity of the baby, fear of hurting it, to make him suffer, or wake him up! These fears are common and the opportunity to express the anxieties aroused by the event that is pregnancy. Some think that the child is a kind of witness sex between her parents. In fact, the fetus is well protected inside the amniotic sac in the uterus; a mucus plug located at the neck of the uterus is separated from the vaginal cavity.

Planned festivities

Body modifications induced by pregnancy have an influence on sexuality.

During the first trimester fatigue, nausea or fear of a miscarriage can decrease sexual desire. This fear is unfounded: at this stage, the miscarriages are the result of chromosomal abnormalities of the embryo.

During sexual encounters, the increase in breast size due to pregnancy adds to the vasocongestion driven by sexual arousal creating tensions breast unpleasant and sometimes painful. This phenomenon disappears during the second or third trimester of pregnancy because, at this stage, the breasts react differently to sexual arousal.

The second quarter is the most flourishing period of pregnancy, the woman feels the baby move, the belly is not too big, for some women there is even an increase in desire and pleasure associated with an increased vascularity area of the pelvis. This reduced vasocongestion the vaginal opening, for some the feelings are, therefore, more voluptuous. Orgasm causes contractions of the uterus, contractions are trivial and inconsequential in the context of a pregnancy is going well. They are different from labor contractions during childbirth.