Woman´s sexuality during pregnancy and after delivery

This presented Bachelor thesis deals with the sexuality of women during pregnancy and after childbirth. Given the focus of this thesis period of pregnancy, parturition, puerperium and the associated sexuality is described in the theoretic part. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the role of midwives in the area of women sexuality during pregnancy and after childbirth. In total, there were defined three objectives. The first one was to find out, if women are apprised about sexual life in pregnancy period. The second one, if women are apprised about issues of sexuality after childbirth. And the third one, how women are apprised about the sexual life during pregnancy and after childbirth at all. The research was conducted with women in their homes during the month of February 2016. For realization of this research was used qualitative survey. Data collection was conducted through interviews with the women that were to one year after birthchild. The research sample consisted of eight women. The interviews were carried out after previous agreement and permission of these women. The interview contained 10 open-ended questions, in cases of need some additional questions were asked. Then the interviews were transcribed verbatim. The analysis was conducted by the hand coding method paper and pen. Each reponses were identified by specific codes that were subsequently classified under various categories. From the research resulted the fact that all interviewed women were apprised sufficiently about sexuality in pregnancy period. But responses about the way of getting information are diverse. Thanks to this research was found that women most often seek for information about sexuality in pregnancy period on the internet. Most women have a problem asking questions relating to this intimate area. That's why the most of them prefer to seek information from anonymous discussions. That primarily pointed out the need for increased awareness of women by midwives. However, not all women are searching for information. From the research resulted the fact that most of the women trust in their own body and anticipation especially and therefore they are not interested in receiving any other information. The investigation was to find out if women have need for sex. Most of the answers were affirmative. What is more, majority of the women mentioned that their need for sex got higher then before the pregnancy. The investigation pointed out that women are informed about issues of sexuality after the delivery mainly from midwives at childbed stations. According to all enquired ones all obtained information were sufficient. But what is more some of the women mentioned again that they do not seek for any information in this field because they follow their own bodies more than other people´s advice. Further questions were related to women sexual satisfaction after giving birth and whether they suffer from any physical or mental consequences caused by that. The results brought out that most of the interviewed ones started their sexual activities already during the time of childbed due to desire for lovemaking. On the other side their sexual desire markedly decreased in comperison with the pregnancy time. The results proved that they are well aware of sexual issues during pregnancy period but not due to midwives. It would be advisable to include this topic in general information that women receive particulary from midwives because this research proved that women in general would like to know more but they are ashamed to ask. As all information about sex after childbirth are received from midwives at childbed stations, women do not feel like seeking for more information on internet as they mention that the obtained information from midwives were sufficient