Postpartum sex? pain or pleasure
I'm currently 11 weeks postpartum and lemme tell you. Sex is not like it was before at all. Not only because we have less time for it, which we totally expected, but also because whenever we do have the time (baby staying with grandma), it's painful. Something I only experienced when I first started having sex.
The vaginal opening feels very tight and I feel a burning sensation. (I did get stitches) My body also don't produce as much natural lubrication as it did in the past.
I've never had trouble with getting wet before. I was quite the opposite actually. It used to get so wet that it starts to drip and eventually the sheets beneath me will be all wet. But now my vagina will have little to almost no lubrication so now we use lube. This makes penetration easier but it will still feel tight and burn.
Besides the tightness, burning and dryness, even the penetration itself doesn't feel as good as it used to. Whenever we have sex I feel mostly discomfort and pain and all the fun just goes away. Sex used to be all fun and pleasure and we don't wanna stop but now it's like as much as we wanna have a good time, with all the discomfort we end up having a quick session with a ton of discomforts for me.
How did you deal with postpartum sex?
If you also experienced the tightness, did it go away after while?
What changed and what didn't? And how did you cope?

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