Love in the Time of Colic: The New Parents’ Guide to Getting it on Again
Author Heidi Raykeil writes about her latest book, Love in the Time of Colic…..
Seven years ago, after the birth of my older daughter, Ramona, I suddenly found my once level libido was missing in action. Where once my husband and I had enjoyed fun nights of sexy naughtiness, now it was just more . . . not. Thus began an ongoing exploration of hanky panky and hokey pokey that began with my anonymous online column at Literary Mama (Sex in the Suburbs) and ended with a memoir about my bumpy path back to the bedroom. While I received great thanks and feedback on my book, Confessions of a Naughty Mommy, I was also quickly bombarded with two questions: “Where’s the how-to manual?” and “When does the guy’s version come out?” Not being a guy—or a doctor (although I like to play one sometimes…)—I figured the jig was up. And then I met bestselling author and therapist Ian Kerner, PH.D. Not only was he a real life sexpert and a man, but a new dad, too. And how can you go wrong with someone who writes a book called: She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman? Within weeks we started collaborating.
In many ways Colic is a sequel to Confessions, a natural consequence of my first book…sort of like my one-year-old daughter Mercy is a natural consequence of finding that lost libido again! As parents and professionals, Ian and I are living this topic every day; we’re dimpled knee deep in it too. Happily, we’ve both learned (each respectively, thank you very much) the hard (pun) way that it really is possible to do the hokey pokey and keep up the hanky panky, or to read the children’s book Hop on Pop, and then actually want to hop on pop. In our book we often reach this conclusion from very different perspectives at times, but what we both agree on is that sex matters . . . a lot. Parents can give their children everything, but nothing is a substitute for parental happiness. And in our opinion, sex is the glue that holds couples together and keeps lovers from simply becoming roommates or co-parents. It’s also the good sticky stuff that dries up if left alone for too long.
This is us on The Today Show last week!
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/28891751#28891751
You can find out more at http://www.thenaughtymommy.com or http://www.iankerner.com