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Parenting and sexuality

Becoming parents brings huge changes into a couple's lives, including what happens under the covers. Keeping your sexuality alive and well isn't always easy with the kids under foot, but with a little planning and attention, and lots of communication, parenting and sexuality can get along together.

  • Parents or lovers?

    Parents or lovers: finding the balance

    The arrival of a baby can affect your libido and thus inadvertently make your partner feel unwanted. During pregnancy, but more generally once baby arrives, sexual desire often wanes... Exhausted and overwhelmed, sensuality and lovemaking can take a back seat.
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  • Lovers, parents and baby

    Staying lovers once baby has arrived…

    After the birth of a baby, parents understandably focus the majority of their attention on their newborn. It is however important however not to neglect your relationship as a couple and as lovers.
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