You’ve likely sought out this website because you’re expecting and want to learn more about sex during pregnancy. Or you’re planning to get pregnant and want to make sure that sex is a priority from the first trimester on. In either case, Welcome! We here at Sinclair Institute are excited to help you cultivate your sexuality during pregnancy and experience sex as you’ve never known it before. There is no reason expectant couples shouldn’t feel closer than ever while awaiting their stork delivery. While many couples are more sexually enticed than ever, they often struggle with how to meet one another’s sexual intimacy needs during pregnancy.
Whether planning to get pregnant or already expecting, couples need to discuss their fears, hopes, and desires for their sex life during pregnancy. Given the great physical and emotional changes experienced at this time, lovers have a lot to field in making the most of all the wonders pregnant sex has to offer. During pregnancy, a woman may experience a tremendous surge in her libido, or may find that her sexual desire diminishes completely. She may feel sexy, alive, and beautiful, or may feel fatigued, nauseous, and unattractive. Whenever possible, couples should attempt to capitalize on the benefits of sex during pregnancy, even if her sex drive is a moving target that may seem impossible to hit sometimes.
Pregnancy can be the perfect time to reconnect, try new things, and take advantage of a woman’s bodily changes, with informed lovers doing so more readily. Regardless of whether pregnant couples are celebrating their revived sex lives, or are looking for ways to cope with the strains a pregnancy can put on sexual intimacy, the Sinclair sensual pregnancy website was created to assist you. It complements Sinclair’s pregnancy sex videos, Your Sensual Pregnancy: Sexy, Connected & Loving It, and The Better Sex Guide to Sex & Pregnancy, which are packed full of the best sex positions for pregnancy sex, real-life couples’ pregnant sex stories, and tips from sex experts.
Her Budding Sexuality
Contrary to popular belief, a pregnant woman can feel her sexiest and most libidinal ever in many ways. A number of them also feel their most sensual and attractive with child, aglow from the better skin tone and more luscious hair that only comes with pregnancy. As her figure blossoms, a woman’s sexuality is often transformed. For some, her sex drive is suddenly insatiable. A woman who is expecting may experience more sexual excitement and arousal, especially in the second trimester, thanks to:
- Higher estrogen levels and increased blood flow to the genitals causing her now throbbing vagina and labia to become slightly swollen and increasingly sensitive.
- A larger, more easily stimulated clitoris.
- Increased vaginal lubrication.
- A curvier, more voluptuous body, most notably her belly and bigger breasts.
- Heightened nipple sensitivity.
- More frequent and memorable erotic dreams.
Not surprisingly, a pregnant woman may have better and more frequent orgasms. For those who have never had an orgasm or experienced multiple orgasms, pregnancy may invite their first taste of either or both. Simple intimate acts, like a massage, may easily cause her to climax. Erogenous zones never known before, like the G spot, may unexpectedly come to life.
While some women are delighted with their increased sex drive and sexual reactions, others are aghast, embarrassed, or totally turned off. This can be especially true of women grappling with body image issues or those who believe that pregnant women cannot or should not be sexy or sexually active.
The love it or loathe it reactions also go for the partners of pregnant women. Some lovers are aroused by her untamable hormones and sexual response. Seeing her react to her enhanced libido can be contagious, especially for lovers who are turned on by the pregnant form. The fuller, tighter feel of the vagina of those who exercise their pelvic floor muscles (in preparing for vaginal delivery) can be extremely stimulating to her male partner during intercourse as well. Some partners, however, can have trouble keeping up with her increased sexual appetite while others may have trouble making love to a woman with child, often because of negative messaging they’ve received surrounding such. For lovers who can embrace sex during pregnancy, the pay-offs are huge, with intensified physical sensations, stronger emotional reactions, and even just no longer having to worry about birth control leading to better sex.
Even the excitement of knowing you’re pregnant can increase sexual desire, with many couples turning inward, focusing on the relationship and their partnership’s inner workings during this time. Studies published in the Journal of Marriage and the Family and the Journal of Family Psychology show that relationship satisfaction tends to increase slightly during pregnancy, with couples feeling closer during the time they are anticipating the baby. It is vital for couples to explore the possibilities for intimacy during this time given that research shows it is in their best interest to stay sexually connected. This may be achieved in having oral sex during pregnancy, experimenting with pregnancy sex toys, trying different pregnancy sex positions, or engaging in anal sex during pregnancy.
Research Says: Have Sex!
Research shows that couples who are proactive about sex during pregnancy have a better chance of maintaining their sex lives post-pregnancy. A 1988 German study by Heinig and Engler found that couples who enjoyed sexual activity during pregnancy evaluated their relationship more positively four months after delivery when it came to tenderness and communication than those couples who didn’t share any mutual sexual pleasures during pregnancy.
Those making an effort to stay sexually connected during all three trimesters only stand to realize more sexual satisfaction both during pregnancy and after the baby arrives. In many ways, pleasure and satisfaction can be greater than ever dreamt possible. A 1999 meta-analysis conducted by Dr. Kirsten von Sydow showed that mutual happiness decreases greatly after the birth of a couple’s first child, with sexual intimacy especially vulnerable. For those having trouble getting past any issues they have with sex during pregnancy, know that it’s perfectly healthy to maintain your passion pursuits. As stated in Childbirth Education: Practice, Research, and Theory, many expectant couples get experimental, changing sexual positions and trying new forms of pleasuring, e.g., sex games.
As you navigate Sinclair’s information on pregnant sex, it is our hope that the next nine months will be the most rewarding and fulfilling possible. We are here to help you meet each other’s needs and realize mutual pleasuring and enjoyment during this time. We hope that our website and video will help in making this wonderful time in your lives that much more magnificent, extraordinary, and sexually, sensually fused. We wish you the best in your pregnant sex adventures!