Abstract
Most of the literature on dyspareunia has dealt with non-pregnant women. Steege and Jelovsek [24], in a cross-sectional study of obstetric registrants, determined that ‘dyspareunia is experienced infrequently during pregnancy’ but did not look at ‘pelvic pain during sexual relations’ prior to pregnancy to assess a change in incidence.Fifty-two married gravidae were queried periodically after (retrospectively) obtaining prepregnancy data including information on dyspareunia. During the 4 pregnancy testing periods both the percentage of women reporting painful coitus and the consistency of the discomfort on repeated coitus increased as the pregnancies progressed. By the third trimester 12% of the women were experiencing painful intercourse more than half the time. Additionally 40% were apareunic. Correlations were found between dyspareunia and happiness about being pregnant, anxiety about the pregnancy, and the perceived attractiveness to the husband. As hypothesized, significant associations were also foun...
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