Pregnancy comes with hormonal changes. One of those changes we experience during pregnancy is decreased libido. You become uninterested in za oza room. You begin to get irritated when it’s about time for za oza room and it’s as if you just want to be left alone most of the time to cradle your growing belly.
For some women, pregnancy comes with increased libido, for others it is a time of “stay far away from me abeg” When hormones change, your adrenaline could be affected. Decreased adrenal levels could mean decreased libido and increased adrenal levels could mean not letting za oza room have peace anymore.
There are ways to help increase your libido during pregnancy, not that it helps you. However, it helps your relationship. If you don’t help yourself and you let that libido die a natural death. By the time your baby is born and you are ready for exercise and cleansing, you may realise that some resetting has taken place or some side chickens are already eating your maize.
You can increase your libido with just simple practices and the foods you ingest. We are going to share with you what works for us here. Maybe your Doctor can add to what we are telling you here. If you try, you’ll see a difference.
If you are really interested in how to increase your libido naturally at home, read on.
THINGS TO DO TO INCREASE YOUR LIBIDO DURING PREGNANCY
- Eat tiger nuts. They work like magic. Eat tiger nuts a day for one month and return here with a testimony. Tigernuts are very powerful aphrodisiacs. They never fail. Consuming even half a cup per day daily for one month can send your libido to an overdrive.
- Add avocado to fruits you love. Eat more avocados than you used to eat.
- Enjoy oysters in your meals.
- Fenugreek too is an aphrodisiac that helps.
- Eat dates, Almonds, eat coconuts. You can combine dates, coconuts and tiger nuts in a food blender, grind, filter and make your libido drink. Many women sworn by this libido drink. It’s very popular in Nigeria among married women.
- Eat nutritious food during pregnancy not just what you crave. If you are low on nutrition, your libido too will be affected. The baby needs you to be 100% healthy and fit.
- Stress less. If you have been under much pressure from work, family or the society in general. Whatever that is causing you stress could be the reason your libido is going down. Remove that stressor or reduce the level of stress if you can. That too helps.
- Eat some paw paw when you need to eat fruits.
- Your Doctor might recommend some supplements. Talk with the Doctor and see. They do help.
- You can take moringa leaves but not the seeds. Moringa seeds may not be safe for pregnancy. Cook with moringa leaves like any other green vegetable soup.
- Maca roots help with blood flow to even those parts too. The better your blood flow, the better your chances.
- What about bananas? Add them to your fruit intake.
- Watermelons are great. Try to enjoy them too especially if dryness is one of your issues.
- Asparagus too are a good libido booster.
- Some libido enhancers like green vegetables we eat Nigeria will work better if we include other libido enhancers. Ugu leaf (Fluted pumpkin) is a superfood you didn’t know works wonders when it comes to fixing deficiencies in the body system.
- Dark chocolates are libido enhancers too.
- Do you like nutmeg? You can start adding them to your Nigerian puff puff and other foods.
- Avoid grudges, be happy with your partner. Be appreciative of his little efforts. That the economy is bad does not mean that he isn’t trying. Things are hard for almost everyone right now. People are just managing. If he says to hold on a bit for finances to get better, believe him. Manage until things improve.
- Put smiles on your face. Try to do things that make you happy.
- Communicate well and keep negative energy far away.
These 20 points above are more than enough to help increase any woman’s libido during pregnancy and even send them to speed mode.
Have a safe delivery!