Fathers can feel ignored after the arrival of a new baby

Suzi Godson, Feelgood’s sex and relationships expert, says only a a tiny percentage of men say that the shift from “wife as lover” to “wife as mother” makes sex more complicated.

The transition “tends to be more challenging for women who feel pressurised by finite free time and split loyalties to father and child”, she says.

In fact about two-thirds of couples see the quality of their relationship deteriorate within three years of the birth of a child, according to data from the Relationship Research Institute in Seattle.