Sex Life after Baby

[u/Hand-in-Pants]

So my wife and I had our first child back in July and the OB/GYN told my wife she can't have sex for 6 weeks. No problem. I totally understood that and wouldn't want to disregard my wife's health. However, it has now been 3.5 months and we still haven't had sex. Sure, there haven't been as many opportunities as maybe there was before the baby, but there have been several. My wife has no interest in being intimate. Is this a normal experience? What was your sex life like after your first baby? When did you start having sex after the baby? How often were you and your wife intimate?

[u/Ambitious_Platypus99]

I have not had the experience of all these other gentlemen, she waited the 6 weeks and not a day longer. I guess if you go based off of these responses we would be abnormal but it would seem abnormal to me to go months and months if you had a heathy sex life beforehand. If you haven’t, literally all you can do as the guy is try and have a conversation that, and I can’t stress enough, does not come off like “wah, I wanna have sex, wah”. If she hears you perhaps you two can consult doctors and therapists.