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Not one of my friends ever mentioned this to me BEFORE I had my first child. After my husband and I first attempted sex after the birth of my first child, I was shocked. Like the writer, I'd read in my books that 6-weeks was the time. I rushed back to my nurse-practioner thinking that I was permanently damaged. Luckily, she was a mother herself and gave me some good advice. My daughter was almost 5 months old before things were back to "normal." I wish that more people would talk about this because I felt so wrong, so dysfunctional. Thank you Mary Elizabeth Williams
