Sex After Baby

Birthful

Adriana Lozada

Education, Self-improvement, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

You’ve probably heard that caregivers recommend waiting 4-6 weeks before having sex after giving birth. That’s usually to give your body some time for healing, but what about your libido? When does that come back? And once you do it, will it hurt? How will your body be different? What if you don’t want to? What if your partner doesn’t want to? Will you ever feel sexy again? In this episode, Kate Dimpfl helps us understand the new normal of sex after baby.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the birthful podcast. I'm Adriana Lusada, and today we're going to be talking about sex after having a baby.
0:19.6	When can you get back to it? Will it hurt?
0:22.3	How is your body different? What if you don't want to? What if your partner doesn't want to? Will you
0:27.7	ever feel sexy again? Fortunately, Kate Dimple is here to help us understand this new normal.
0:33.8	Stay tuned.
0:46.2	This episode of Birthful is brought to you by the first eight days of being a mom, a day-by-day manual on taking care of the new mom as well as her newborn.
0:51.0	Get a 10% discount by going to the first eight days.com slash birthful.
0:55.3	That's with the number eight, the first eight days.com slash birthful.
1:02.7	The Birthful podcast, talking to maternity pros to inform your intuition.
1:09.8	Hello, Mamas and Mamas to be. I want to thank you once again for all the love you're giving the show and ask you to please,
1:12.1	please, please, please go to iTunes and leave a review. That would be so helpful in getting this
1:18.5	in front of more and more and more mamas. So please leave a review. I will be forever grateful.
1:25.7	All right. Today I'm talking with Kate Dimful, who is the owner of holistic childbirth and co-founder of the Center of Paranatal Education and Support in Ithaca, New York.
1:35.3	Kate is a childbirth educator, doula, and a perinatal counselor who focuses on normalizing all women's experiences of pregnancy and birth while they prepare for life's transitions
1:45.5	that are often complex, private, or need more personal attention. Kate works hard to demystify
1:52.8	birth as a way to encourage women to be empowered and engage consumers in their care. In addition to
1:58.3	her business, she also co-founded the I Ethica Childbearing Loss Network and is a
2:02.9	founding member of the Ethica Dula Collective. She's also a frequent speaker at Cornell University
2:08.5	and a TEDx presenter. Kate, welcome. Thank you. Great to be here. Yay, so happy that you're here. And we're both on like the same area of the country.
2:20.3	So we were happy about the weather that we're finally having some nicer weather.
2:26.3	Yes, indeed.
2:28.3	Indeed.
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