Sexual desire during breastfeeding?

Many women are not interested in sex during breastfeeding. In fact, this is a normal physiological phenomenon. Generally, breastfeeding women focus on their children. Therefore, their sexual needs decrease during breastfeeding. Husbands must understand their wives and never scold them. In fact, the decrease in women's sexual desire during breastfeeding is mostly due to the decrease in estrogen, which leads to a decrease in women's sexual desire.

There are many reasons why women may experience low sexual desire or unsatisfactory sex life for a period of time after giving birth, such as excessive fatigue, weakness, pain during sexual intercourse, less vaginal discharge or odor, fluctuations in hormone levels, the psychological impact of pregnancy and childbirth, the shift of attention to the child, or fear of physical damage caused by sexual intercourse after giving birth, etc. Regardless of the cause, it will generally improve about 3 months after delivery. If you do not understand the above situation, the dissatisfaction of sexual life may be delayed for a long time. The low hormone level during lactation may cause vaginal dryness.

Psychogenic vaginal dryness is less common but can occur when a woman anticipates that intercourse will be painful or when a man anticipates premature ejaculation, because it can inhibit the normal engorgement response of lubrication. I hope you and your spouse can communicate frankly about the above principles and gradually reach harmony. In addition, if your vagina is dry, you can use some lubricants, such as cod liver oil, before sexual intercourse.

When women are breastfeeding, due to changes in hormone secretion in the body and the interaction and influence of various hormones, the ovarian function of secreting estrogen is reduced. Therefore, the sexual desire of breastfeeding women will be weakened. At the same time, since the baby's activities, sleep, breastfeeding, etc. are irregular during breastfeeding, women's normal life routines will also be disrupted, and they often feel sleep deprived and sleepy. In addition, the arrival of a baby will increase a lot of housework and other chores, and will also make women feel mentally and physically uncomfortable. These factors will more or less have some impact on women's sexual desire. However, this change in sexual desire is a normal physiological change in sexual function during breastfeeding, not a sexual dysfunction.

After stopping breastfeeding, as the body's systems recover, the level of hormone secretion in the body gradually recovers. Both the women themselves and their husbands should correctly understand the changing characteristics of the sexual desire of breastfeeding women. In order to better lead the sexual life of breastfeeding women, both parties should strengthen emotional communication, show consideration for each other, and appropriately prolong the time of caressing during sexual intercourse. The man must not engage in rough sexual behavior just because the woman has low sexual desire. This will not only have an adverse effect on the couple's sexual life, but also affect the couple's relationship. Women should also not stop breastfeeding early to restore their sexual desire levels, as this will have an adverse effect on the healthy growth of the baby.

After becoming a mother, a woman may devote all her energy to her child. In addition, during the breastfeeding period, prolactin increases, and her sexual needs will be relatively reduced. Therefore, many men wonder why their wives don’t want sex as much after giving birth. If men can share their wives' burden of raising children and give them more care and consideration, then their wives will not be "lacking the energy" for sex after giving birth.