Where for art thou libido? How to handle a postpartum change in sex drive.
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There’s a physical reason for the dip in sex drive that happens postpartum. “When a woman is pregnant her reproductive hormones are elevated and after giving birth they crash,” says Julia Arenson, a Brooklyn-based doula. “This results in a dip in estrogen, which can cause low sex drive and vaginal dryness, making sex feel painful.
If you’re waiting in the months, and often years, postpartum for your libido to just turn back on like a light switch, it doesn’t quite work that way, explains Orna Guralnik, Psy.D., a psychoanalyst and star of Showtime’s“Libido is actually a whole matrix of biological, emotional, and psychological factors,” she says. “It’s not a binary thing that’s there or not there.
Over the course of the pandemic, Guralnik has noticed that her patients have also contended with what she calls “the safety factor.” For some people, feeling the safety of being with only their partner has allowed them to, while for others it’s a turnoff.
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