No sex drive

Anyone else feel like they have no sex drive since given birth? I had my daughter nearly 7 months ago and sex doesn't even bother anymore.

I never had much of a sex drive before but now I'm so past it. I can't even be arsed with it anymore

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No you’re not alone! x I used to have a high sex drive but since getting pregnant and giving birth 6 months ago, it’s significantly reduced. I feel bad for my husband but he’s been very patient with me.. but I feel like I’m just too tired for it.

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My daughter just turned 1 & I had a sex drive through the roof before I got pregnant with her. Now it’s the furthest thing on my mind.

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I feel the same way but once we get into some foreplay I want to be with him. I think I’m just too exhausted and wouldn’t care about doing it or not. Doesn’t mean I don’t crave intimacy with him though.

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honestly my son is 12 weeks and i feel weird about my body and having sex atm so glad im not alone..

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My mom lied she promised she’d helped before I moved in so I moved in

Idk what to do anymore my mom is ZERO help.. I caught my bd cheating so I moved back to TX bc she said she’ll help me with my son especially while I work .. she doesn’t help so I can eat or shower she’ll literally say no when I ask and flex’s to my family that I don’t have help I can’t eat or shower bc she doesn’t help
she says she’ll watch my son (3M) while I work and is unreliable
I let her know when I need to do things ahead of time
I had an interview for Sunday and had to reschedule she said she’d watch him so I could go to it she didn’t
Monday I was supposed to work from 12pm-4pm which again she knew ahead of time but didn’t show so I had to cancel
Yesterday I was supposed to be there at 330pm (it’s a 30 minute drive) she said she’d be home by noon.. didn’t get here until 320 I didn’t get there until 4!!

Now she’s telling me not to go back bc it’s 30mins away?! What sense does that make when I need to make money I’m a single mom providing for my son 100% without help from his father.

It’s pathetic I changed him and fed him before I left she didn’t have to do anything and he went to sleep at 5… she asked me where i was at 6pm when I’m done working at 630pm??? He was sleeping most of the time she had him.

I just don’t understand she doesn’t have a job she said she’d help me with him and isn’t. She cant even watch him while he’s sleeping.
She said she had somewhere to be so I rushed home.. it was a lie she went to bed as soon as I walked through the door she woke my son up and gave him to me then went to bed

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Sex 7 weeks PP

Anyone had sex yet ? I’m really scared too but want to so bad

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Boyfriend being weird about me working

I was just offered an interview for a remote job, I am extremely excited about this because I have been dying to work for a long time and remote is even better right now.
The problem is that my boyfriend works 11 hour days Mon-Fri. 3p-2a.
The proposed schedule for my job is 10a-4p, 3 days a week. (Weekends as well but thats not an issue yet I guess)
My son will wake at 8am to start preparing for school & go down at 10pm so I said I could do 8a-10a with him (im pregnant so the baby too eventually) and my son can have maybe an hour downtime "alone" (naptime for baby) while i begin my shift and my boyfriend can wake at 11am and do lunch/hang out until he has to get ready and leave for work & then my son can have more "alone" time for about an hour until i finish my shift.
Like I said this would only be for 3 days a week where my boyfriend has to work & do childcare (I do 100% of childcare right now)
He is freaking out saying that his days are too long to help watch the kids for that time which I can understand but we had discussed me working multiple times and I told him he would need to pick up childcare for the fact that I cannot work & watch them (unfair to them) and if I am bringing in a paycheck it would make sense that he does atleast a few hours?
This just feels like he wants me to somehow do it all while he just works. He even said I should've just gone for a job at like 3am so I could be available for the full childcare day but then I would lose sleep, be contributing financially, 100% of childcare, 100% housecare. I don't know how to get through to him that he's acting selfish and lazy and really limiting our families potential because he can't handle extra work.

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