The long-awaited two stripes. Everyone is happy. But your body seems to be more yours. It is changing at crazy speed. For some couples, these changes seem completely normal; in other couples, women may face shaming for becoming less sexy. This exposes problems that were simply not noticed before. Often changes also affect whether partners are ready to make love to each other.👀 How can the body change? very noticeable. The more round the pelvis is, the more the pelvic floor muscles will stretch during pregnancy. This can cause stress urinary incontinence during exercise and during sex. There are practices that strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, and the sooner a woman starts doing them, the better for these muscles.🤰🏼Orgasms During pregnancy, blood rushes to the pelvic organs, and Women may experience violent orgasms for the first time, including orgasms during sleep. Women often experience increased sexual desire during pregnancy, and this is the norm rather than the exception. However, this can become a problem for a partner due to cultural ideas that a pregnant woman/mother should be deprived of sexuality.🤰🏼Unable to “get pregnant” This often becomes a reason for an active sex life.🤰🏼Accumulation of adipose tissue Discrepancy between the glossy picture of pregnancy and the fact what women really experience. Often pregnant women in the media differ from non-pregnant women only in that their belly increases. In reality, the accumulation of adipose tissue occurs in a completely different way: not only the abdomen increases, but also the chest, arms, cheeks and other parts of the body. This can be a particularly frightening experience for a woman who has never gained weight or for her partner who cares about physical attractiveness.🤰🏼Colostrum and Breasts Many people know that it can be released quite early in pregnancy (with stimulation of the breasts, involuntarily or with arousal). Here, too, moments of tension can arise. Breasts can become several sizes larger and please a woman and her partner, although for some, an increase in breasts and their sensitivity is not a reason to rejoice, but rather discomfort. Knowing these factors affects how self-confident a woman is, as far as she understands, what happens to her, and how she defines new bodily phenomena for herself during pregnancy. Spoiler title Expanding spoiler text If you have difficulty accepting yourself during pregnancy and this affects your sex life, come for an online consultation.