Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Pregnancy

Talk about every stage of pregnancy, from early symptoms to preparing for birth.

Sex during pregnancy

1 reply

JY8819 · 05/07/2019 15:58

I know this is quite a personal topic but I'm curious to know if anyone else has had similar experiences (if you feel willing to share!)

I'm only 10 weeks but pretty much since finding out I was pregnant at 4 weeks sex has felt 'different' - very different! I had imagined it would feel different and be logistically challenging later in the pregnancy but had no idea it would this early on.

Everything down there feels EXTREMELY sensitive and I was already pretty sensitive before. It also feels almost tighter or shorter or something...just generally swollen inside and sex feels uncomfortable. I have to admit I also have an irrational fear or him squashing the baby since its so tiny.

The thing is my sex drive has been really high but I just don't want sex at all. We've gone from around 3x a week to maybe once every 2 weeks and I feel really uptight about it / try to avoid it.

Obviously I don't want to lose the intimacy but not sure what to do. My husband has been really patient and understanding but I feel bad as he deserves to be satisfied too. He also takes a long time to finish otherwise I would just grin and bear it (with slightly more enthusiasm of course!). Anyone else have these issues during pregnancy?

OP posts:
mistermagpie · 05/07/2019 17:08

I'm afraid so. Third baby here and last time and this time I have been very 'swollen' and tender down there from very early on. I won't lie, sex is quite infrequent at the moment because I just don't really enjoy it and it makes the swollen feeling much worse. Luckily the last time everything went back to normal quickly enough so I expect that will be the same again.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page