Reclaim Sex After Birth

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What is lochia?
Why do women bleed after birth?
Healthy vagina, healthy discharge
Vaginal bacteria and infections
Common vaginal infections

Immediately following birth women experience a discharge medically termed lochia. It is first mixed with blood, much like a period, that begins as a heavy flow and becomes lighter and brownish over time, ending as a yellowish white discharge.  Read the rest of this article.

It seems likely from research, that loss of libido has as much to do with the imbalance of hormones than it does with anything else.

Hormone imbalance and the symptoms surrounding this is caused when your main hormones production has changed - usually due to a lifestyle change (birthing, change of diet, change of job and stress etc) and from the changes which happen in the reproductive cycle during your life.

In a perfect world, where you eat organic, healthful wholefoods, drink plenty of pure water and live a stress free life in an nontoxic environment, the normal menstrual cycle, only estrogen is produced for the first 10-12 days. Ovulation then tells the female body to produce progesterone, and the hormones are in balance. Happy days!

Progesterone sustains the endometrium, so it can receive a fertilized egg if pregnancy occurs. If there’s no pregnancy, then the body stops producing both hormones, and menstruation occurs. However, if there is no ovulation ( which occurs through a number of factors, including toxicity in the body, stress, eating food which are not supportive etc etc ) then the body has too much estrogen (already produced for that month) as its not balanced by progesterone (only be produced with ovulation.) During pregnancy too, the hormones are producing like crazy, and in some cases after birthing, this production can go either way – by continuing or completely stopping. PLUS by the time you are in your mid 30s, you still produce estrogen, but less progesterone. In each of these cases, having “Too much estrogen” in the world of medicine is called - “estrogen dominance”.

Estrogen dominance causes the following list of complaints: Hair Loss, fibrocystic breasts, uterine fibroids, accelerated aging process, breast cancer, polycystic ovaries, mood swings, osteoporosis, uterine cancer, memory loss, endometrial cancer ,bone loss PMS, low sex drive, allergies thyroid dysfunction, water retention, bloating and unexplained weight gain ( just what we all need!)

In the medical world, if your blood tests show that you are estrogen dominant, then you may be prescribed a number of things, including synthetic hormone replacements. Explore natural supplements and supportive remedies in conjunction with western medicine as well as looking at your lifestyle and your choices. Many petrochemical based products have estrogen-like and toxic effects on the body, especially in unborn children. Examples of these are the many household cleaners, soaps, herbicides and sprays commonly used at home. A simple change to make is to begin using toxic free cleaning products. ( just because something is labeled ‘natural’ does not mean its not toxic – so do your research thoroughly)

The lack of hormones will reduce the secretions of lubricant which would normally be there and those ‘sexy’ feelings when touched - anywhere. It will more likely be replaced with feelings of resentment and frustration; and one which is not a healthy anchor for future relationships. Medically it is suggested that you grab the tube of lubricant and use it liberally. This will assist in the short term, but you need to get those hormones sorted out…!!

So any woman whose sex drive isn’t up to much should take a very careful look at her lifestyle and food and environmental choices – before thinking that nothing can be done. It is true that you are guided by your hormones ( your emotions, mood swings, the way you react to events), but you also have the opportunity to get them back into balance and start feeling “balanced” and more at peace again.