How soon is it to start having intercourse after a natural childbirth?

when you feel up to it and ready – doctors say after 6 week check but i stopped bleeding after 2 weeks missed being intimate with my fiance and felt ready so we did it and was fine…you can try but if it hurts stop and wait another week or so! only thing you should be worried about is fertility – your fertile after birth so protection unless you want another little one right away

AFTER your six weeks check up!
and no you shouldnt be worried about producing more milk that is good

Once you stop bleeding and you feel comfortable enough for sex you can try
My DH and I tried after 3 weeks and it was still sore inside, we tried once a week, every week after that until it wasn’t sore anymore.

Good luck !

Whenever you feel ready

You should have “too much milk” the first 2-12 weeks, it usually stops being a problem around 6-8 weeks.

http://www.vhi.ie/hfiles/hf-269.jsp
If you don’t have any stitches, are not feeling any soreness or pain and there is no medical reason to avoid sex, then you can start to have sexual intercourse as soon as you like after giving birth. In fact, resuming lovemaking after the birth may help to re-establish the feelings between you and your partner, strengthening your relationship.

http://www.worry-free-c-section.com/sex_...
Most doctors and specialists will say you should wait at least 4 weeks after having a cesarean section to have sex again. The reasoning behind this is you want to wait until your body returns to its normal, healed state which typically takes about 4 weeks. But there are also doctors that will tell you to wait 8 weeks and some doctors have even been known to say you can have sex any time you feel up to it. On average, however, most doctors will tell you to wait until the bleeding stops and your body is well on its way to healing.

http://www.babycentre.co.uk/baby/youafte...
Whenever you and your partner both feel that it’s the right time for you. There is an assumption that you are just waiting for your GP to give you the go-ahead at your six week postnatal check. But some suggest that it’s a good idea to try making love before the doctor’s visit so that you can then discuss any problems you encounter. Some couples do resume their sex life within the first month, and many more resume it between one and three months, but there is a sizeable minority who wait till about the six-month mark, or even a year. There is no norm that you have to aim for.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/98410...
Postpartum sexual abstinence time can be safely shortened for most patients when episiotomy repair is done meticulously with fine PGA suture on small needles. The time preferred by patients for resumption of intercourse seems to be between the second and third postpartum week. We have seen no ill effects from this, and we feel that sexual intercourse at these early dates does not influence the healing of the episiotomy in any way.

http://www.vhi.ie/hfiles/hf-269.jsp
Resuming Sex?

If you don’t have any stitches, are not feeling any soreness or pain and there is no medical reason to avoid sex, then you can start to have sexual intercourse as soon as you like after giving birth. In fact, resuming lovemaking after the birth may help to re-establish the feelings between you and your partner, strengthening your relationship.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/76333...
Many Hmong women stressed the importance of not having sex until after the rest period of one month. The Hmong women also discussed other ways to stay healthy during postpartum. They suggested taking adequate rest and not lift anything heavy or do household tasks. Nurses should observe Hmong traditional practices in any health promotion activities.

http://repository.upenn.edu/psc_african_...
Postpartum taboos on sexual intercourse have been encountered in many countries throughout history. They were once advocated by medical authorities in Europe. The Greek and Roman doctors of antiquity were opposed to sexual relations during nursing and their opinions were quoted until the nineteenth century. Galen (1951:29) thought that the milk of the nursing mother would be spoiled because of the admixture of sperm in the mother’s blood. Soranos and Hippocrates believed that coitus and passionate behavior provided the stimulus that reactivated menstruation. Prior to the eighteenth century, there was no medical knowledge of the biological effect of bring on inence, and not the action of breastfeeding, was thought to delay the return of menses. This interpretation was still vivid in Europe in the eighteenth century.

http://www.popline.org/docs/0842/055488….
It is traditional in Subsaharan countries for parents to carefully space their children through postpartum abstinence; mothers who become pregnant too soon are often viewed quite negatively. The a mount of time the sexual taboo is observed varies widely from a matter of weeks to close to 2 years. Generally 3 types of duration have been observed. Those of 40 days or less are increasingly seen among followers of Islam who interpret Koranic tradition in this way. Durations of longer than 40 days and less than 1 year are observed in much of East Africa. Duration of more than 1 year characterize, among others, non-Islamic Western Africa and Central Africa. The strength of the taboo may be rapidly eroding however, as such factors as the influence of Islam, modernization, urbanization, and education do away with factors associated with long taboo such as male dominance, polygyny, early marriage for women, large differences in age between spouses, and possibly female circumcision. Sexual abstinence can be seen as a means of protecting the child’s healt

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