Don’t let pregnancy dampen your sex life

Sex might actually be more fun during pregnancy since the baby-making pressure is off a couple’s back. Think about it… you are not thinking about contraceptives or afraid of unplanned pregnancies. You are already pregnant, so why not enjoy the ride.

Pregnant women and their partners frequently ask if having sex during pregnancy is safe. Will it result in a miscarriage? Will it be harmful to the unborn child? Will I orgasm?

It’s perfectly safe to have sex during pregnancy unless your doctor or midwife has told you not to. If your pregnancy is normal with no complications, sex is a natural and normal aspect of it. You should not be worried that you will harm the baby or will miscarry.

And if you’ve spent most of your reproductive years trying not to get pregnant, you’re also out of the woods.

The movement of penetration and intercourse will not hurt the baby, who is protected by your abdomen and the muscular walls of the uterus. The fluid in the amniotic sac also cushions your baby.

Orgasmic contractions are not the same as labour contractions. Nonetheless, some doctors advise avoiding sex in the later weeks of pregnancy as a general precaution, believing that substances in sperm called prostaglandins can promote contractions.

Women who are overdue and seek to induce birth may be an exception. Because the gel used to ‘ripen’ the cervix and induce labour also includes prostaglandins. Some doctors believe that prostaglandins in semen actually induce labour in a full-term or past-due pregnancy. Other experts, however, believe that the semen/labour relationship is simply a theory and that having intercourse does not cause labour.

During pregnancy, your blood volume increases by roughly 40 per cent.

This not only causes enlarged breasts but also increases sensitivity across all of your erogenous zones, resulting in more intense, even multiple, orgasms. So this might be your chance to enjoy those elusive earth-shattering orgasms!

Your sex drive will most likely fluctuate throughout pregnancy which will likely fizz out during your first trimester when you’re tired and nauseated.

Most women become more active in the second trimester when high levels of hormones send the libido through the roof, and then taper off as baby’s due date approaches when one feels achy, unwieldy, and nervous about impending parenthood.