Show Notes:
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Table of Contents:
02:03:00- Feedback from listeners
04:19:00- First-hand account of sex and breastfeeding relationship
06:06:00- The biology of the THREE major hormones that relate to sex and breastfeeding.
16:10:00- The best research we could find on breastfeeding and female sexual “function”.
24:45:00- How low partnership quality and maternal depressive symptoms affect sex in the postpartum period.
28:19:00- Why the Edinburgh screening for postpartum depression is so important
30:00:00- What you need in order to make sex go smoothly while lactating
34:07:00- A note for trauma survivors
36:22:00- Comments from listeners on lactating during sex
Sources:
Matthies, L. M., Wallwiener, M., Sohn, C., Reck, C., Müller, M., & Wallwiener, S. (2019). The influence of partnership quality and breastfeeding on postpartum female sexual function. Archives of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 299(1), 69–77. https://doi-org.frontier.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s00404-018-4925-z
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