Women's experiences of sex and intimacy after childbirth: Making the adjustment to motherhood

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 185-190

  Woolhouse, Hannah ^a   McDonald, Ellie ^a   Brown, Stephanie ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adjustment to motherhood; Intimacy; Postnatal; Qualitative; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY IMAGE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; INTIMACY; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; TEAMWORK;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; MOTHERS; PARTURITION; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPOUSES; TIME MANAGEMENT; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870512060     PISSN: 0167482X     EISSN: 17438942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0167482X.2012.720314     Document Type: Article

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