Sexy Time and Babies
Before I was the mother to a darling wee one, my sex life was anything but quiet. I had been known for being loud, leaving marks on walls, spreading too much info whenever I could and showcasing my sexual experiences on my blog. There was even this one time while I was on a sexual escapade- drunken stupor and all- that I busted a window. In general, it’s fair to say that my hoo-ha drama has been an open free-for-all, criticisms and compliments alike, always welcome.
As a new mother I was expecting that things would tone down for a bit, if even for a little while. I also found myself living with the man friends ‘rents- which really doesn’t bother me, but Mr. S/O has a slight issue with his parental units knowing his sexual adventures. Okay, no big deal. I figured it’d take some practice, but I’d be close to a dead fuck in no time.
Now, we are bringing home baby, setting up her little basinet next to our bed and yadda yadda. Oh hell! That’s when it hit, the first moral dilemma of my new mommy life.
“Do I have sex with my kid next to me?”
I have too high of a sex drive to not have any at all!
“Is that even right?”
What does Google say?
“What if she sees?”
I am pretty sure this will scar her, right?
Our closest couple friends who have children all had sex while their children were small and in a bassinet in the room with them. (Apparently some Google results stated that some parents were actually co-sleeping and doing the deed with their babies in the same bed- sorry but that is a little FREAKY in my opinion.) Honestly I really couldn’t picture us going without for however long it took from the bassinet-crib transition. Well guess what? We didn’t.
I was a bit shocked at how easily I found myself craving sex when our daughter was finally asleep. Is there something wrong with me, I questioned. I even found myself having one of those what would Doctor Phil have to say about this, thoughts.
Then that night came; the night I dreaded, the one I figured was eventually going to happen regardless of how quick we rushed the woohoo, or what time we did it, or how quiet we were. Mr. S/O was just getting his kicks off after we’d all doggy-styled it and I was right there- like right there and I glanced over quickly to check on her, only to see two bright blue eyes starring vigorously at the scene before her. My god our kid just saw us getting our freak on! Immediately I felt that little volcano inside me – that had been a whole forty minutes in the making- dissipate. Lucky for somebody else, they’d already reached the climax they’d been anticipating, but no, I was just stopped mid O.
For the next few days I showed her picture book after picture book, hoping that she’d be all Ooo rainbows inside her tiny little head and have the image of mommy and daddy with their sexy time parts shaking about in front of her little face erased from her memory.
Needless to say when we did finally went to have sex again, we made sure she was asleep and turned off all the lights. That way, if she did get up she wasn’t going to see anything traumatic- if it is traumatic to a small child- Google still hasn’t given me an answer.
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All of our kids slept in the room with us in their own crib until they were 18 months old or so. We had a lot of sex. I promise, your kid has no idea what they’re seeing and it won’t scar them. =p
We just put a towel or blanket over the edge of the crib facing our bed and turned on the tv or radio to entertain them til they fell back asleep. Now we stuff a blanket under the crack in the door because they’ve become prone to peeking if they want something. They do slide the blanket through the door sometimes if they’re being really persistent.
Sex is just part of life and freaking out about the kids seeing or knowing that you and your spouse still do it will traumatize them far worse than just witnessing it will. I mean, unless you’re doing something gross like forcing them to watch, them accidentally walking in or something isn’t going to kill them.
LOL My Mom, bless her heart, was open about sex after childbirth and said pretty much the same thing as Sarahbear. I also promise it’s true…she isn’t scarred and probably didn’t see much anyhow. Babies eyesight just isn’t developed enough to make much sense of something happening 18 inches away from their faces. My girls have heard me their entire lives and they just shrug and say, “Daddy tickles Mommy and she screams!” They came up with that explanation on their own. Still it sucks to lose an “O” for any reason!