New research suggests that women who drink between two and five alcoholic beverages a day are also at a greater risk. Doctors recommend regular breast self-exams from age 20 and mammograms after 40 or 50, depending on your risk factors. A couple should be able to return to intercourse soon after childbirth. After a woman gives birth, the single most common feeling she has is fatigue and the second most profound feeling she has is fatigue, jokes California sex therapist Marty Klein. A new mother s hormones can take as long as 18 months to regain their prebirth balance.
Nature is very smart.
It tells you the most important thing is not to get pregnant again, to take care of this baby, says Klein. There may be a lot less bed-rattling sex for a while, he says, but cuddling, caressing, whispering, and enjoying each other s company are ways couples can stay intimate until a woman s body and mind are ready to resume a normal, healthy sex life. Most women have sex for the first time in their teens. It s not abnormal to abstain from sex during the teen years or prior to marriage. A hysterectomy will cause a woman to lose her desire for sex.