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How's Your Sex Life?
Great Sex Matters When You're Trying to Conceive
By Jane Merrill
Intoxicating sex is an incomparable, invisible energy exchange of you and your partner, part of what the French describe well as la vie du couple or the life of the couple.
"Today we make it so complicated," says Dr. Wei Huang. "Each step of the continuum – intercourse, getting pregnant, staying pregnant – has a responsibility and a flow. To avoid defects in the process or the child, work on your lifestyle. Align all dimensions: physical, sexual, psychological, financial. Prepare 100 percent. Intercourse in the spirit of giving rejuvenates energy rather than depletes it."
But does the mother's sex life during pregnancy affect the baby like a sprightly lullaby or a baleful aria? I consulted Dr. David Sable, director of reproductive endocrinology at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., where infertile people from all over the world come for high-tech healing.
"Can we boil down the quality of sex to what will impregnate? No," he says. "And if anybody figures out the formula for attraction and arousal, I don't want to know. Let's keep the mystery. Note how sex thrives throughout the pregnancy for many couples. The biological duty is done, yet there is a continuance of pleasure. Except in the unusual event of bleeding in the uterine lining, there is no reason to abstain. I emphasize that pregnancy loss is embedded in the embryo. Pregnancies are hardy things."
"Whether or not we find what we are seeking is idle, biologically speaking," writes poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She seems to be speaking for what medicine knows not, but what Dr. Morgentaler suggests and hopes may be known in the future.
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Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 02/24/2010 08:54PM
Hi was just reading through your messages... Why don't you try and ask your doctor about In Vitro procedures. You can read through it on the net and find out more about it. Good luck!
Re: How's Your Sex Life? by joy on 02/23/2010 04:01AM
please send me an advice how to get pregnant
Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 02/09/2010 02:22AM
I have been married for 14 years.I have been to several GYN.Had numerous amount of test ran.I tried clomid several times.I pray continiously.I made up my mind that maybe pregnancy just isn't going to be for me.If any one has any advise I would gladly appreciate it.niceyrae@yahoo.com
Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 01/19/2010 05:18AM
hi ive been trying to get pregnant after an espontaneous abortion for two years now and my gynaecologist said im okay yet i dont ovulate and mesurate regularly please i need an advice cos i really want to be a mother and i ñlove babies.
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Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 03/13/2010 04:03PM
ME AND MY HUSBAND HAVE NOT ACTUALLY BEEN TRYING BUT HAVE NOT STOPPED THE ISSUES OF HAPPENING FOR ABOUT 3 OR 4 YEARS. WE HAVE NEVER USED PROTECTION. BUT I AS WELL AS HIM WOULD LIKE A CHILD. I WOULD RATHER HAVE A BABY SOONER THAN LATER. I THINK ITS MORE ME THAN HIM WANTING A BABY. WE DONT DISCUSS HIS PAST BUT I KNOW HE HAD USED SOME ILLEGAL THINGS IN THE PAST AS WELL AS I HAVE .. IM TAKING WHEN WE WERE 16 OR 17. BUT I DONT HAVE THE MONEY FOR US TO GO BE TESTED AND I ACT LIKE ITS NOT A BIG ISSUE FOR ME ON A DAILY BASIC.. BUT ITS EATING ME ALIVE IN THE INSIDE. EACH TIME WE HAVE SEX THATS ALL I THINK ABOUT IF HE CANT FINISH I GET MAD AT HIM AND I AM ALMOST AT MY BRAKING POINT AND JUST IN MY HEAD I KNOW I WILL NEVER BE LUCKY TO HAVE A BEAUITFUL BABY. THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE IN HIS FAMILY THAT IS PREGNANT AND EVERYONE KNOWS WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ONE, SO I JUST PLAY LIKEK I DONT WANT ONE ANYMORE JUST TO TRY TO MAKE MYSELF THINK THAT BUT I NEVER DO. SOMEONE OUT THERE PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHAT IM DOING WRONG AND JUST SOME ADVICE WOULD HELP ME???????