Touched Out, Low Desire & Feeling Like a Feeding Machine: Let’s Talk About Sex After Baby

You’re exhausted. You’re touched-out. You haven’t wanted sex in months and you’re quietly wondering if something is broken. Nothing is broken.This Maternal Mental Health month we’re talking about what nobody talks about: what actually happens to your body, your brain, your desire — and your sense of yourself as a sexual being — after you become a mother.We are joined by Debby Poort, a sex and intimacy counselor based in Amstelveen at her psychotherapy practice Yellow Wood. She also works online.We talk about matrescence and the body. Breastfeeding and desire. Guilt. Performance anxiety. And why your pre-baby self is not the benchmark.For the woman at 2am who hasn’t had sex in 6 months and is scared it’s gone forever: it isn’t. This episode is for you.Part of the Maternal Mental Health Month series.