Post baby when were you ready for sex? I'm 4 months post partum and I'm just not feeling it. Did you do anything special to feel sexy again?
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i was ready at 5 weeks, but we went really really slow!
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Bad tear and it hurt until 8 months. So i guess 8 months!
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I was ready very soon after but we waited until five weeks.
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We waited until after my postpartum check up at 6 weeks, but I probably was ready at about 4 weeks - just wanted the go ahead from my doc first. But I also had a very easy delivery and no tearing, I felt recovered down there the next morning!
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Episiotomy 100+ stitches, nerve damage, granulation tissue at scar site = almost a year
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With all of my stitches, and then tearing them one week in, it was a while. I'll say 10 weeks at the earliest. We took it veryyyyy slow and had to stop the first time or two. Honestly, I just kind of knew that I needed to jump back in because I surely wasn't feeling sexy with my leaking boobs and exhaustion.
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Six months, and even then it was tough.
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I did enjoy it until about 9 months and even the. I didn't feel very sexy. Honestly I didn't start feeling sexy until after I weaned.
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We waited about 12 weeks. I was ready sooner, but I had some scar tissue on my tear that had to be removed.
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It always takes me forever, especially when I'm nursing. I would tell my husband, "I have someone sucking on me, laying on me, needing me all day, I want a break!"
Maybe 6 months, and even then it's mostly out of pity.... -
We tried after I got the clear at six weeks. It hurt the first time from my episiotomy scar. Tried again at 7 weeks and it was smooth sailing after that! Sex life after pregnancy/baby def is less frequent but at least consistent!
I didn't feel 100% comfortable in my new body til six months pp but Dh made it a nonissue in the months preceding that time and made me feel really comfortable which helped a lot as far my wanting to get back into our groove.
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A long long time. There was pain, then exhaustion, and I just felt fat and gross. Blah. Lack of confidence is not exactly sexy lol
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I was ready to go soon but we waited until 6 weeks. It was awesome tbh lol
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We tried at 6 weeks and kept trying until I weaned at about a year. I was willing to but I was too sensitive from BFing.
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We were one of those couples fooling around in the hospital the next day. But in reality it was about 6 weeks before it didn't hurt.
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Oddly, I was ready really soon. Probably about 3 or 4 weeks but we waited until I was cleared at 6 weeks. To feel sexy I wore some normal underwear, not the lame cotton ones I'd been wearing during pregnancy. I shaved my legs which I hadnt been able to do for months!
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I was ready about 10 days PP but I had a tear and waited fkr the all clear at my 6 week PP appointment. We tried that night and it hurt too much so we stopped tried a week later, took it super slow and used a ton of lube and it was say better. I'm kind of a weirdo, I've felt way sexier post baby than I ever did before, my DH says there is a confidence about me, I think knowing what my body did made me feel powerful. However it is hard to feel that way in the day to day so to help things along the night of I put on some sexier underwear, shaved my legs, and put some light makeup on.
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I'm over 6 months pp and still not ready. I still feel beat up down there.
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It was about 7 months and I had a lot of the same issues as @rachiecakes: minus the nerve damage.
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We just waited until I was given the okay by my doc at 6 weeks. We tried that night and we were pretty unsuccessful...and for the next few times. It hurt super badly and I had only two internal stitches from some abraisions - no real tearing. It continued to hurt for months. I don't think I realized how much BFing would affect it and cause dryness. And as soon as I dropped a feeding at 7 months and got AF back, it was better pretty much overnight.
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I was probably ready a few weeks out. We gave it a shot at about 4ish weeks, and it was no go. Hurt way too much. After my all clear doctor's appointment, we were good to go. We took it really slow. I definitely started to enjoy it more after BF was over.
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5 weeks the first time (second degree tear) and 3 weeks the second time around. It was a little sore the first go around after both kids but got better after that.
Now, I didn't FEEL sexy at first but I did want to start that aspect of our relationship up again and I have to say -- being intimate definitely helped contribute to my feeling sexy again after baby.
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I'm 4 mo pp too and have yet to! I have wanted to probably after 3 mo but we both choose to sleep, or just spend time but cuddling/talking... So it's less about me being physically ready... We're hoping after we sleeptrain DD we'll have more time and and get more sleep and finally have the energy to!
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I'm impressed at you ladies that were ready to go so quickly!!!
I don't want to torture my husband much longer, and I can list a million excuses not to have sex (we co-sleep), so I may just need to get a bottle of wine and try to get back in the game soon
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I will be a year out tomorrow, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've wanted to be intimate. Nursing, co-sleeping, and a baby who hates sleep just don't put me in the mood. It started to hurt less at 6 months, but I still don't really like it...
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