Sex after babies……..

Over a sandwich with a girlfriend last week, she told me about a conversation she’d been having with one of her other friends. The gist of it was this: “After you’ve had kids and they’re old enough to open drawers, where do you hide your sex toys?”
My first thought was: put a star on your star chart right there for HAVING sex toys after you have kids.  Well done you! That is a marvellous thing to be proud of. But it does raise an interesting question – not just logistically (where DOES one put a vibrator and did our parents ever have to worry about such things? Did they????). But also, physically and emotionally. How do you reconcile your sexuality with your role as a mum? The part of you that nurtures and takes care of your kids is different to the part that rocks it in the bedroom and the two can be hard to combine…..

And how soon do you get back into it after you’ve had a baby? Doctors say 6 weeks rest from rumpy pumpy after giving birth is enough. What do you say?