Sexuality in the Puerperium

This is an study in women´s sexuality in the puerperium period, that was made in Hospital Comarcal "Medina del Campo" in Valladolid for S.Martin de María, midwife and sex therapist.

Background information


The puerperium period is a stage after the labor process, in that so many changes happend in personal, family and sexual life in women and her partner, bringing problems like sexual problem, because after the arrive of the baby the style of life in the family and partner life change complety. It is too important consider that is not more a relation between two person, now are three or more person in the relation, so is a dificult situation. 

Aims


The aim of this paper is, through a literature review, how it has addressed the sexuality of women at this stage, thinking about the role that professionals, like midwives, have in health education when they are giving advise and intruction for keep health of the mother, father and the baby.
  

Method


They used literature reviews studies on the subject, analyzing the results of them, in addition to surveys and interviews to woman and partner with and without conflict after they having a baby, in sexual, psychological and social aspects.



Result

The analyzing show the following results:

• The changes in the woman´s genitals after vaginal childbirth with episiotomy, will create fear of pain for have sexual relation, false situation.
• The type of delivery, complications or the presence of men in labor does not affect later sexual enjoyment.
• Conjugal affection decreases when the baby's mother overprotected.
• A good relationship with parents in childhood influences positive effect on sexual interest and enjoyment in childbirth.

• The quality of marital relations and stability three years after birth is directly related to the tenderness and intercourse at four months postpartum.  

   
Conclution

All descriptive studies are focus on sexual activity (penetration), data about sexual feelings and sexual activities are few. This situation is not suitable for studying human sexuality, because it excludes activities such as masturbation, fantasies, dreams, kindness, attitude and initiative on women and their partners. Is for this reason that is too important our role like health professional, especially like midwife, because we have the opportunity to treat individually and entirely private aspects of the relationship in mother, her partner and their baby, and with this providing knowledge focus in physiological, psycho-emotional and social life, we can teach skills and suggest strategies to live more happily and safely this period.

Key word: puerperal period, sexuality, affective relationships, communication, bonding

preconception control

    

 Preconception control is a method   that we have for   planning our   sexual   and   reproductive   health life. It is   responsibility of each woman to go to control,   ideally    before   they have sexual relation, and it is fundamental   the compromise of the woman and her partner, in the  decision to use contraceptive methods and choose one of these. 

     In this area is really fundamental the role of midwife, to give motivation in women to go to the control and take care of theirselves with responsibility and compromise that is necessary.

        In the preconception control the midwife prepares women to become a future mom and can have a good health pregnancy, labor process, state of health of newborn. Together with it, achieve  detect early  the health problem that the woman and her partner has , and in the same form gives solutions and advise to change their style of life, if it is bad for their health state and future pregnancy. 

  

      So for having a great sexual and reproductive health life, we have to change our kind of mind about the pregnancy, and go to preconception control.

 

Hi lovers of health!

Hello readers! I´m Daniela Santana, I´m 19 years old, I like the animals, stay with my boyfriend, my family and  friends, and go out with them. I have 3 dogs and a hamster. In my free time also I go cycling. I really like see movies and read books, my favourite autor is Carlos Cuahtemoc Sanchez, he wrote "Youth In Ecstasy" and "Eyes of my Princess".
Most of time I´m studing, because I´ll be a midwife. I study in Universidad de Chile, this is my second year career, and I´m really happy for will be a midwife, so is for this reason that I created this blog page and I will write about the importance of the midwife´s role, that in my view is too important in topics like huminization of labor process, care of pregnant woman, advise adolescent and woman health in all her life. I wanna that with this information the people may created consciousness about relevance of keep a good health and respect life.