Are you friend-zoning your partner?

When you’re pregnant, sex and connecting with your partner might be the last thing on your mind. Jo Robertson, co-director of Practical Parenting Antenatal (practicalparentingantenatal. com), relationship counsellor, and sex therapist, has honest advice on intimacy in a time of indigestion.

Pregnancy is insanely exciting and insanely strange at the same time. It’s a little bit like an alien takeover of your body – nausea, weird cravings of putting tomato sauce on apple slices, growth in various locations around your body, the push of feet against your ribs, acid reflux, overheating, and then an animal-like delivery of said baby involving lots of moaning and grunting.

This is not everyone’s experience of course; however, it was mine and it was bizarre. Currently 11 weeks pregnant with my third baby, I am reminded again of how difficult it is to remain connected, let alone passionate...BUY BUMP&bay ISSUE 4 FOR THE FULL STORY.