These Good Practice Points are to help health visitors to talk to parents about their sexual wellbeing and its importance for new parents.
Sexuality is considered a central aspect of human identity across the life-span and embodies gender identity, sexual orientation, intimacy, sex and reproduction.
They cover:
- The importance of sexual wellbeing for new parents
- Barriers
- How postnatal physical changes can impact on sexual wellbeing
- Most common reasons cited for why it’s hard to talk about sex with parents
- Good Practice Points
- Most common myths about sex during pregnancy and after birth
