I love my husband and the sex we had before pregnancy was amazing. Even during it’s been awesome but now that I’m huge and almost 37 weeks we can only do one position that I’m comfortable in and a lot of the time it still feels uncomfortable having him inside me. I’m worried it’ll send me into early labor but I don’t want to cut him off entirely already since I know we won’t be able to be intimate for a while after birth. I don’t know how to talk to him about any of this and feel horrible about it.
Does anyone have any advice? How did you deal with sex so close to your due date?
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i kinda felt the same,only doggy was comfortable the last few weeks. and sex did help me go into labor at 40+5!
you just gotta tell him how you’re feeling! i don’t think you should feel horrible or worry too much about his needs tbh, he should support you and care about your health and comfort more than anything

Talk to him and voice your concerns. Yall can figure out a solution. Keep your mind and physical safety safe. It’s be Okeyy!

So.. when I was 7 months pregnant with our second baby, I went to the sex store and bought him a toy for his birthday that I can use on him lol. Let's just say there were no complaints.

There are other ways to sexually satisfy each other without penetration 🥰 just voice your concerns to him and I’m sure he will be more than happy to explore other options :)

Just talk to him about it, I’m sure he will be understanding and not want to cause you discomfort. There’s no need to feel horrible about it all of this is very normal. We had sex irregularly throughout the whole of pregnancy, my libido was the highest in third trimester as that’s when I finally felt better but of course that is when it starts to get uncomfortable and positions get limited. You dont have to have penetrative sex to be intimate with each other so if you still want to that’s another option. My partner has always been understanding when we’ve had to have breaks from sex pregnant or not. I will say when I was desperate for baby to come we did try and it did seem to end up triggering labour off 🙈

You’re creating and carrying a human! I see so many posts on here of women worried about the lack of sex their husbands are getting. I find it so strange that these men can’t live without sex for a few months? You do not need to feel uncomfortable just to please him or feel horrible raising the subject with him. There’s more to life than sex and it can wait surely?

We had sex til the end, at 38 weeks my water broke at home literally 3 hours after we did the due lol

In a previous pregnancy my waters ruptured at 24 weeks and I was not allowed to have sex. Instead I performed oral. I didn't want to orgasm myself because of my circumstances. But you can absolutely both get off without having sex.
You don't have much longer to go, so I say go with your gut feeling.

Sex will not put you into labor unless your body is ready. I had sex the night before I went into labor. It’s difficult and I won’t lie, I mainly did it for him cuz you’re right, it is uncomfortable. You just need to be honest with him because men don’t really understand exactly HOW uncomfortable pregnancy is on its own let alone having sex at the end of pregnancy. You just need to be forward with him ❤️