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Great, honest prose, but Elizabeth Williams along with other new nursing mothers would do themselves a favor to learn about the effect of the prolactin hormone (what makes you nurse), on sexual function. Not surprisingly, nature wants us to take a break from fornication during the early baby period, and thus sees to it that this happens. Google "prolactin + sexual function" or look on the website of the Pituitary Network Association (www.pituitary.com), a really great non-profit that is trying to disseminate these essential, but not well publicized facts about female sexuality. When the doctor pronounced Elizabeth as ready for sex (but surely knew, as most doctors know or should know, the impact of her hormones in the bedroom), he did her a great disservice. But hey--who cares about female sexuality? That's nothing new.
