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Published on: January 27, 2010
[Women's postpartum sexuality and delivery types]
Xiao-yang Xu1, Zhen-wei Yao, Huan-ying Wang
1Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, First Affiliate Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
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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