thread: Libido, ladies?

  1. #1
    Registered User

    Dec 2007
    Taking a ride on my grdonkey :D
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    Libido, ladies?

    Please tell me I'm not alone here, girls...
    DH and I (sorry if this is TMI) had a pretty fabulous sex life until I fell pregnant with DD1. It was all good until about 8 weeks in, and then I lost absolutely all interest in anything to do with being naked. I recovered pretty soon after her birth (we had a tentative go at getting things back on track as soon as I stopped bleeding, and it went fine, but things were still a bit slower than pre-bub because of me being exhausted and feeling unattractive, as you do, but things were good), and I hoped that this time around, the pregnancy books would get it right and that I would really enjoy being intimate.
    Nope - sex is the absolute furthest thing from my mind, I feel like an oversized tub of lard, and sex has again become too uncomfortable to keep my mood maintained.
    Again, the first 8 weeks or so I was firing on all cylinders - I admit I was eyeing off nearly every bloke in the vicinity with bad, bad thoughts in my mind, but after that, I may as well have been comatose for all the enjoyment I'm getting (and giving, it must be said - hard to be enthusiastic and make a big show of things when I'm just desperate for an extra ten minutes of sleep!).

    So my question to you ladies is this: do your raging hormones turn you into a raging hornbag, or does the sight of your newly-acquired stretch marks make you think gouging your eyeballs out with a rusty crocheting needle would be more fun and exciting than getting laid? Can you still turn it out for your partner, or do you practically have 'GO PLAY WITH IT BY YOURSELF' tattooed on your forehead?
    How quickly do you get back into the swing of things after baby arrives, or have you found that 'sex' is now just one more thing on your list of daily chores?
    Do you think the pregnancy books and what not are lying to us and just trying to convince us we should be getting as much uninterrupted intercourse as possible before the sleepless nights and nappy changes set in, or are you and your expanding belly swinging from the chandeliers without being told to?

    I'm curious.

  2. #2
    BellyBelly Member

    Feb 2007
    On the beautiful Gold Coast!
    1,930

    I had no libido at all for prob 90% of my pregnancies, I did have days here & there throughout where I felt a little toey though.

    I've a had a very low-non existant libido for about 8 years or so now & thats still the same after having my babies. Sex feels the same if not better since having them but I'm just too damn tired to even think about it. It doesn't help that DH is a sex addict & has to.... ummmm.... have some relief at least once a day, it causes alot of probs here.