The doctors tell you to wait six weeks to have sex after you give birth. It feels like a sexual countdown. Like the reopening of your favourite shop. Just 42 days and you'll be able to cut the ribbon, open the doors and welcome in old visitors. You’ll be back to new. Except for me and many other women that moment comes and goes without fanfare.
In my WhatsApp group of new mums, two months after giving birth a poll went up asking who’d braved sex. Of the 10 of us only three had done the deed — they’d all had cesareans.
