PREGNANT DADS 'Expectant Fathers' are as excited and as confused about the coming months and baby. Here are some useful information to help you cope up with this awesome milestone.

Pregnant Dads

How does pregnancy affect your sex life

You must remember that the baby is well protected by the amniotic fluid and amniotic sac. Uterine muscles are strong and they protect the baby. A thick mucus plug seals the cervix and protects from infection.

In a normal, non-complicated pregnancy, sex is not prohibited in the first trimester if you both are game for it. But you have to avoid too much stress during the act. But in high risk cases and difficult conceiving, your doctor might advise to avoid it.

It is not the doctor alone who may hamper it but also the mood swings of your wife.

First trimester hormonal changes are quite dramatic and she may just not be enthusiastic about it. It would be good to talk to her frankly about it and give her time and space.

Second trimester brings better days and it is a perfect time to reconnect withers. If required you can also take a short trip and enjoy together.

Third trimester may again be difficult basically because of the physical discomfort and the baby bump in the abdomen. Whatever it is, it is up to both of you to device a way out, and be adventurous. If intercourse is proving to be more of a pain than a pleasure, there are other ways for you to both get sexual satisfaction. It may be the perfect time to re-explore other ways in which the pair of you can feel close.

Think back to the time when you did "everything but" have intercourse. It was exciting then, and it can be just as fun now.

Mutual masturbation, oral sex, or vibrators can be just as much fun as intercourse.