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Miss Anonymous
Did you find it to be better?
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Were you never really turned on.
My mother told me when she was overdue with my brother, the doc told her to go home and have sex. I'm guessing to help with water breaking.
What do you think about
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Did you find it to be better?
or
Were you never really turned on.
My mother told me when she was overdue with my brother, the doc told her to go home and have sex. I'm guessing to help with water breaking.
What do you think about that? or about the whole subject of sexual activity and, pregnancy.
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I found the orgasms during pregnancy amazing.
Women often have sex to stimulate labor, but not "break the waters." In fact, less than 10% of labors start with a broken bag of waters and most of those will have fetal distress. Most amniotic sacs break at or near full dilation. Unlike on TV, most labors END with a broken bag of waters (then of course the baby being born) not start with them.
But, yes, having an orgasm or the introduction of semen into the vagina will often cause uterine contractions. So much so that I wasn't supposed to "have sex" during my pregnancies, because I had preterm labor and contractions, starting at 12 weeks with all of them. We didn't stop having sex, but we did wait if I was contracting a lot. I also had to lie down after sex and take an aspirin to calm my uterus until about 34 weeks. (Aspirin is an antiprostaglandin and may quell contractions in some women. However, it should not be taken after the 34th week for fear of premature closure of the arterial ductus in the fetus.)
We enjoyed sex all through my pregnancies, although we had to be gentle or avoid it if I was contracting. Women who have low risk pregnancies don't need to really take any precautions as long as the pregnancy is going well.
My Man thought I was gorgeous while I was pregnant, too. And I felt beautiful. It gets difficult to position yourselves as your belly gets bigger and bigger, but there are ways. Most of my babies were born a little (2 to 4 weeks) early. The only baby I carried all the way to term was in danger of having to be induced (which, being a nurse and seeing the problems with Pitocin I didn't want) we had sex and I "took care of myself" several times a day, and I went into labor before we had to worry about induction.