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Summary Title: Problems concerning sexuality and relationship after childbirth? – A project regarding women’s experiences about sexuality and relationship after childbirth, and the midwife’s articulation hereof. Background: New research shows that women who have just given birth, experience changes to their sexuality, libido and have issues with resuming intercourse (Olsson et al 2005). As result, bonding-difficulties between the parents and the child can occur, along with poorer quality of life and work efforts (Trillingsgaard 2007:4). Because of the midwifes consistent role throughout a woman’s pregnancy and maternity period, it becomes relevant to look in to, whether or not addressing sexuality and relationship struggles during the prenatal and antenatal midwife sessions, could have a preventive role when it comes to sexuality and relationship struggles. Objective: The aim was to acquire a greater understanding of women’s thoughts about sexuality and relationship after childbirth, using Social Constructivism as a scientific perspective, and furthermore to examine how midwives can use this greater understanding to prevent problems regarding sexuality and relationship after childbirth. Method: In order to reach the goal set in this project, a qualitative survey was created. The analysis of the results from the survey happens from a hermeneutic and phenomenological point of view. Additionally are the results from the survey considered from a Social Construtivistic perspective. To put the analysis and discussion into perspective, I include a qualitative study; Women’s thoughts about sexual life after childbirth: focus group discussions with women after childbirth, by Olsson et al (2005), wherein the main purpose is to find out which sexuality-related issues, women who just gave birth, experience. Conclusion: The results from the survey showed a clear resemblance with the results from the Olsson et al (2005) study. Knowledge about the constructed society, created through social networks like Facebook, gives the midwife an awareness of why many women experience their sexuality and relationship as being more negative after childbirth. Midwives are thus better prepared to prevent this. Text identification: Beinta Gaard, University College Syddanmark, Esbjerg, 2014 Key words: Sexuality, childbirth, postpartum, women’s experiences, sexual problems