Sexuality during pregnancy can be worrying. A midwife answers the main questions that future parents ask themselves. Midwife Léonie Schneider has worked on the issue and is responding to concerns.
Making love during pregnancy: can it be bad for the baby? Do you risk a miscarriage or give birth prematurely? Can the baby feel the mother’s pleasure? Sexuality with a baby in the belly questions.
Unlessa pregnancy pathology (placenta previa type) or a particular risk of premature delivery, “making love with or without penetration while pregnant is no problem”, she insists. On the contrary, the fulfillment of the mother is important, so she must be able to follow her desires, by making love (or not) during these 9 months of gestation.
Fungal infections and bleeding
Can sexuality cause minor pregnancy ailments? The midwife specifies that it is not not impossible to have mycoses or even small bleeding, but that very often, this is not directly due to sexual intercoursebut rather to hormones during pregnancy, or to an ectropion on the cervix (a small part of the tissue that turns over and becomes more sensitive), which is quite benign.
Anyway, in case of doubt, concern or pain, she insists on talking to her doctor, her gynecologist or her midwife.
Read also:
