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Childbirth is a dramatic event, an intensely emotional occasion. It is a time of great physical and hormonal change, and of psychological readjustment. Psychoanalysts have called it a ‘maturational crisis’ — a woman’s abrupt transition from girlhood to motherhood, often bringing to mind previously unconscious recollection of the mothering she herself received. For the couple, it is a time of domestic and social upheaval and reassessment of roles. Such factors may have a profound effect on sexual feelings, which providers of contraception need to understand if they are to meet fully their patients’ individual needs.
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Montford, H. (1993). Contraception after childbirth. In: Montford, H., Skrine, R.L. (eds) Contraceptive Care. Psychosexual Medicine Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4519-8_7
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