Sex After Pregnancy Loss Is Complicated
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In an excerpt from her new book I Had a Miscarriage, psychologist Jessica Zucker, who specializes in maternal mental health, dives into the impossible challenge of feeling sexual after the trauma of a loss.
As I’ve combed through the various elements of life after loss, I’m struck by the ways in which loss can upend even our very personal and often complicated relationships with our bodies. Pregnancy can leave us intimately connected with them one moment, then feeling as if we’re veritable strangers the next. Or worse yet, despising or rejecting the very body we’ve been assigned, the one we must continue to live in.
Considering the feelings of betrayal that so often invade the minds of people who’ve experienced pregnancy loss, we might become prone to reassessing exactly how we feel about our bodies, how we feel in them, how we touch them, and, critically, how we like them to be touched.
Pregnancy loss has the power to affect the way some people feel in and about their bodies, and how they want to share (and not share) them sexually.
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