sex after giving birth?...

...um, no thanks.

I just watched this and, oh girl, the memories. Not only did I not want to have sex for many, many months after Pic joined us out here, I didn't want to have sex while I was pregnant with her. I never understood those women who said that sex during pregnancy was the best sex they'd ever had. I felt like my body was saying, "Um, hello, we're closed during construction." (I guess I should be thanking the sex gods that sex during pregnancy wasn't the best sex ever for me, considering that time comprised only a short nine months and I don't plan on going through it again.)

Before I got pregnant, Cardo and I were pretty prolific, I think. Now, well.... Things are definitely different. I don't know how much of this is wrapped up in the being parents thing and how much is wrapped up in everything else. I'm constantly stressed out and when I'm like this, I'm something of a live wire...Cardo might not want to touch me for fear that he gets the crap shocked out of him. I'm constantly tired, and this turns out to be a libido-slayer. Also, the relationship just isn't exactly new anymore. We had a good couple of years and, well, then baby made three. Things were starting to pick back up, but then Cardo's heart decided that it was just so sad and now I'm a little afraid of Cardo exerting himself too much. (Cardo wasn't so much worried...at least, not about this topic.) I'm really hoping that as Pic grows older, things will really start picking up again.

Oh, yeah, maybe I should have warned you at the beginning about the TMIness of this, but, ha!, I didn't.