Keeping intimacy alive after having a baby

Life Kit: Parenting

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Kids & Family

4.4 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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It's hard to find time for anything with a newborn at home. And in the months after having a baby, intimacy with your partner may fall to the wayside. But sex and relationship experts say that maintaining your intimate relationship with your partner is a worthwhile challenge. In this episode we'll talk strategies for reconnecting with your partner, exploring your desires, and expanding your ideas of sex and intimacy.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:15.4	You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.
0:22.6	Congratulations.
0:23.6	Your parents now.
0:25.6	Months and months of anticipation and finally, Tiny has arrived.
0:29.6	I bet it feels like you and your partner have entered a whole new world together.
0:33.6	A love you've never felt before.
0:36.6	I saw my son and it made me cry. It was truly one of the greatest moments of my life.
0:44.0	And I was completely in awe of my wife. And I'm looking at this beautiful baby boy and I'm like,
0:49.7	this is everything I've ever wanted.
0:52.5	That's parent relationship educator and coach Aaron Steinberg describing how he felt when his first
0:57.4	child was born.
0:58.9	It was a singular moment of connection.
1:01.3	Of course, with his child, but also with his spouse.
1:04.6	One that so many expected parents hope for, with none of that relationship strife, he'd
1:09.3	heard so many new parents suffer.
1:11.5	I kind of thought, hey, I'm even a couple's counselor.
1:14.9	Like, this will be fine. We'll be fine.
1:17.7	You know, and then the dust settles.
1:20.7	The euphoria kind of melts away.
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