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. 2003 Apr;38(4):219-22.

[Women's postpartum sexuality and delivery types]

[Article in Chinese]
Xiao-yang Xu  1 , Zhen-wei Yao, Huan-ying Wang, Qin Zhou, Li-wei Zhang
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  • PMID: 12885369

[Women's postpartum sexuality and delivery types]

[Article in Chinese]
Xiao-yang Xu et al. Zhonghua Fu Chan Ke Za Zhi. 2003 Apr.

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the impact of delivery on the sexuality of primiparous women in China, and the association with delivery type.

Methods: We inquired 460 of primiparous women delivering of a live birth at the first affiliated hospital of Chongqing medical university from November 1, 2000 to July 31, 2001. It was a cross-sectional study using obstetric records and postal questionnaire survey by outpatients consultation six months after delivery.

Results: Ninety-four point seven percent had resumed sexual activity within six months of the birth. In the first three months after delivery, 70.6% of women experienced sexual problems, it declined to 34.2% at six months, but can not reaching the pre-pregnancy levels. There was no close relation between sexuality postpartum and delivery. (sexual satisfactory, desire, active rate, dyspareunia and pubococcygeal muscle intensity, P > 0.05).

Conclusions: Postpartum sexuality was not significantly associated with delivery types. Sexual problems were very common after childbirth. More consultation and direction of postpartum sexuality recurrence is needed.

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