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“She was so scared around that area of things... I don’t even think she would have attempted to have sex again. ”
“Even for weeks, you know, you’ve still got afterbirth in, in your stomach, in your urine, blood coming out.”
“When it hurts you tense up, and… then you get stressed out and then you tense up, and it just got worse and worse.”
“With the first child I had post-natal depression, and it didn’t affect me where my sex life dipped, in fact I wanted more sex, and that I think was for reassurance.”
“I would say probably an absence of sex for about, say, six to, to eight weeks would be normal because it’s a big thing, having a baby.”
“It got quieter for a start, less spontaneous because obviously you have another little person in the house that is taking up a lot of your energy. ”