A TMI question…

I’m not sure if this is allowed here and if not, please remove this post- but I genuinely need some… “anatomy” insight from my fellow pregnant women here, if possible.

Before getting pregnant, my husband and I had sex pretty often- sometimes multiple times a day. I’ve always had a little trouble with “natural” lubrication but most of the time it just meant extra foreplay was needed, though sometimes after it was still painful.

But now that I’m pregnant, it feels like sex has completely changed for me. No matter how long we wait, how much foreplay has been committed before having sex, it feels almost excruciating. I’ve always been rather small down there and he is well, rather endowed I will say. Now, sex feels painful. During it, it feels like I’m being stretched beyond my limits even when we’re very slow and gentle. And then afterwards I feel a painful, I’m talking BURNING sensation to use the bathroom and it often takes me an hour or an hour and a half of soaking in hot water to soothe myself down there.

This happens without any UTI’s, yeast infections— I’m perfectly clean and good to go down there and so is he.

Has sex become much harder for anyone else during pregnancy? My OB didn’t have an explanation for me and just told me to stop having sex altogether. Kind of just shrugged her shoulders with no explanation.

Anyone else?