Family Bed...

I read a La Leche League book when I was expecting my first baby, and it had the idea of a family bed in it. I read the paragraph out loud to my husband, hopeful he would be agreeable. He was, somewhat hesitantly... but once the baby was born, he was SOLD. He LOVED snuggling with his son! We both loved waking up to see how stretched out that little body could be when it was so relaxed. 

With regards to sex, though, the family bed presented an obstacle. When our son was still so tiny that he could sleep far enough away from where we were piled on top of each other, it didn't seem like a big deal. He slept through the noises just fine -- in fact, I felt like he was living proof about what they say -- that the fetus can hear things in the womb and prefers those sounds after birth! 

As he got older and bigger and wigglier, we had to get more creative... and that's what I'm writing about. The creativity required to have sex somewhere other than our bed has created this fun kind of "sex-citement" and added an unexpected element so that I would say, the family bed is no longer an obstacle at all. It's more like a stepping stone to a more interesting sex life!