State of the Art Fertility Treatment Episode 7: Keep Having Sex

What could be more unsexy than having your doctor monitor your sex life, as intrusive as ultrasounds on a weekly basis. When under IVF treatment, or actually even before that, when trying and trying with no success, sex becomes performance driven, rather than passionate, seductive, emotionally intense, and exciting.

 

How can we keep this passion up and the performance pressure down?

 

• Arrange date nights, candles, bubbles, all you’d always done in the beginning of your romantic relationship.
• Try to live your couple’s life as normal as possible as before.
• Talk about your feelings of performance pressure.
• Find relaxing activities as an individual and couple.
• Seek support to talk about it with a professional.
• To be said: lots of the feelings listed above are very normal and also happen in couples not under IVF treatment.
• Try your best to be in the moment and enjoy.

@drschwank

@unesurcent

@optimalperformancezurich