The new study recently being done suggests if your new life with your baby is quite stressful, you can say a good bye to your sex life.

According to the study presented by Penn State Health researchers first time parents are very rarely satisfied with their sex lives and one of the important factor that appears to be reducing their sexual satisfaction is the stress on mother as a new parent.

Chelom E. Leavitt, a researcher said, “The transition to parenthood has gained importance recently. We know that sexual satisfaction is an important element in relationships, but as far as we know, it hasn't been studied at this transition before. We wanted to know how parenting stress affects sexual satisfaction.”

Leavitt has also added that, “Interestingly, we found that men's parenting stress had no impact on either men's or women's sexual satisfaction.”  

“But the amount of parenting stress women felt affected the sexual satisfaction of both partners. "When new moms feel fatigued by the added responsibilities of parenting, they may feel less sexual,” said Leavitt.

“The sexual relationship is interdependent, so when a mom feels greater stress due to parenting, not only is her sexual satisfaction diminished, the dad's sexual satisfaction is also affected,” he concluded.

Leavitt and his team has examined the data from 169 expectant heterosexual couples who had participated in the Family Foundations prevention program. The couple was asked about their experiences after six months their baby was born. Parents reported on their overall sexual satisfaction, twelve months after the baby was born.

By Prajakt K.