Sex and the Sleeping baby: Oh the guilt...
Husband
kissing me on the neck obviously ready to start something.
Me: “What are you doing?”
Husband: “I thought it was obvious.” He
said as his hands found my breasts.
Me: I know but the baby is right there.
Husband: “Ok, but she’s asleep.”
His hand slips into my pants. It feels so
good but I just can’t let him go further.
Me: I can’t do it with her sleeping right
there. It just feels wrong.
He sighs.
Husband: “Trust me, she won’t remember a thing.”
I remember when my first
daughter was born. We used to keep a bassinet
right by the bed to make it easier for me to breast feed and get to the baby
every two hours. It was no problem
during the 6 week waiting period, but once my doctor cleared me for action; it
was more of a problem.
My husband, who has an amazingly
high sex drive, was anxious to go after the unbearable 6 week hiatus. I on the
on the hand was ready to go, but could not fathom having sex with a sleeping
baby nearby.
My husband has no
problem with it. It does not bother him like it bothers me.
Even after he moved the bassinet
across our large room, I still didn’t feel doing some of the nasty things that
we do with her in the room. Being a first-time mother I just felt like some of
the things that my husband and I did were not “mother-like”. I just felt so guilty. I just felt so wrong.
I did not know to get to the
point where I could separate.
Sometimes it is hard to
compartmentalize. I am called on to be mommy so much that I lose myself. It is hard for me to separate my womanly
sexual self from my “mommy” self.
By the time I had my second
child, it started to subside some.
Mainly, because my husband
wasn’t going to take no for an answer. I also realized he was right. They do
not remember it anyway. It took some
time but I had to realize that it’s ok to be a mom and still be a sexually open
and adventurous woman.
When you are so fucking hot that
you turn yourself on, you just have to get used to it.
I mean, that is how they got
here in the first place.