Sometimes, you just need to laugh!

Parody written by Helen Austin and performed at Voices Three 2007, a concert that raised $3000 for Hospice.

Just when IS the right time to .. you know…. get back into it?

There seems to be some magical occurrence after the six week mark and so many couples are dreadfully disappointed when that ‘something’ doesn’t happen. The physical facts are that within six weeks of birthing, your uterus should be back to its pre-pregnancy weight and size. Breastfeeding assists in stimulating the hormones released around this function. This is the reason that you are meant to have a six week check up and then are medically are ‘fit’ to commence intimate relations. Ignored and unaddressed are the emotional and psychological changes that have occurred.

Throughout the literature available both in hard copy and on the internet, this notion of the mythical 6 week check continues as some sort of goal post. What are your experiences of this check? Did it happen? What happened in it? If it didn’t happen, why not?

Welcome to December

Phew! It’s the end of the year … and Annie and Jodi would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.

We’d like to thank everyone, especially our partners, kids and friends who have supported us in creating our eBook and this website. And also to all those people who have bought Reclaim Sex After Birth: The Survival Guide and utilised our website. We feel very blessed to be able to fill the void in information regarding sex after birth and look forward to expanding the information in 2009.

Two very quick updates (as we appreciate that everyone is busy at this time of year) Firstly we have Reclaim Sex After Birth: the survival guide on CD in limited numbers, signed by both the authors. A perfect present for Christmas, blessingways and baby showers. Or treat yourself to the best information available about sex after birth.

Why?

Interim results from our Sex After Birth survey show that 3 in 4 couples receive no formal education in their ante natal classes to prepare them for sex after birth, nor do they do any self directed preparation. Grandfather of the Self Help movement in American, Henry James said:

“If your expectations meet your reality, you are happy.”

That’s what Reclaim is all about - giving couples an opportunity to reframe their expectations so they can meet the reality of life and love with a baby.

Secondly, Annie and Jodi both got over the 50,000 word finish line for the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). You can find extracts from our projects at:

Mistress Moon - Annie’s feminist speculative fiction novel.

Blue Melissae -  Jodi’s post environmental apocalypse sci-fi novel.

If you haven’t completed our sex after birth survey, please do. You can fill in the simple 10 question survey here, hosted by Survey Monkey. Our aim is to collect between 250 and 500 responses and we need your help. Some of the ways you can help us get all those responses is to:

* email the link on to friends, family and work colleagues
* post the link on your favourite forum
* create a link on your blog or website
* create a link to the survey on your FaceBook profile

Keep happy and connected. We hope you all have a relaxing and restorative festive season, that’s what we’re planning for.

We’ll see you in 2009.

:o) Annie and Jodi