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Shall We Baby Dance?
All About Sex When You're Trying to Conceive
By Teri Brown
Human beings were pretty much designed for sex. Our physical bodies, our emotions and our hormones are all geared for us to have sex, enjoy it and propagate the species. But what happens when baby making isn't easy? What happens to the enjoyment of sex? Does that make sex like ... work?
Angie Best-Boss, co-author of Budgeting for Infertility: Bringing Home Baby Without Breaking the Bank (Simon and Schuster, 2008), had difficulty conceiving her own two daughters. Best-Boss believes that sex can become a chore when a couple is having trouble conceiving. It's important to keep things in perspective.
"Keep a sense of humor, be gentle with each other and make an effort to connect emotionally before you connect physically, but be realistic," she says. "Baby-making sex just may not be that hot, but it can be tender. Keep one night a week off limits for baby or ovulation talk."
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Shall We Baby Dance? by vileta on 12/02/2009 01:19AM
thanks alot for the tips. i'm totally new on this and it helps me alot