Your Complete Guide to Pregnancy Sex

So you've been trying and trying and -- finally! -- those two tiny pink lines have appeared on the pregnancy test. After grilling your new ob about whether your baby is developing as expected, you probably have one more lingering question: Now that the deed is done, can you...um...still have sex?

Absolutely, obstetricians say. If your pregnancy is uncomplicated, and you feel up to it, you can dance in the sheets until your water breaks. "Men often feel a little ignored because everything is so centered on the baby, so we encourage couples to have sex because it helps keep them bonded," says Terry Hoffman, MD, an ob-gyn at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore.

Actually, sex may be more fun during pregnancy precisely because the pressure is off. If sex had begun to seem like a chore because you were working overtime to get pregnant, now it's all fun and games. And if you've spent most of your reproductive years trying not to get pregnant, well, you're out of the woods there too. "It was really freeing," says Michele, of San Francisco, mom to 8-month-old Kai. (Last names have been omitted throughout for privacy.) "My husband used to pull out or stop to put on a condom. Once I got pregnant, we didn't have that extra stress."