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  • Title: [Women's postpartum sexuality and delivery types].
    Author: Xu XY, Yao ZW, Wang HY, Zhou Q, Zhang LW.
    Journal: Zhonghua Fu Chan Ke Za Zhi; 2003 Apr; 38(4):219-22. PubMed ID: 12885369.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of delivery on the sexuality of primiparous women in China, and the association with delivery type. METHODS: We inquired 460 of primiparous women delivering of a live birth at the first affiliated hospital of Chongqing medical university from November 1, 2000 to July 31, 2001. It was a cross-sectional study using obstetric records and postal questionnaire survey by outpatients consultation six months after delivery. RESULTS: Ninety-four point seven percent had resumed sexual activity within six months of the birth. In the first three months after delivery, 70.6% of women experienced sexual problems, it declined to 34.2% at six months, but can not reaching the pre-pregnancy levels. There was no close relation between sexuality postpartum and delivery. (sexual satisfactory, desire, active rate, dyspareunia and pubococcygeal muscle intensity, P > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Postpartum sexuality was not significantly associated with delivery types. Sexual problems were very common after childbirth. More consultation and direction of postpartum sexuality recurrence is needed.
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