Whether you and your partner are both spending the holidays with parents (possibly having been relegated to a childhood bedroom, or even a couch) or you’re hosting family members from near and far (maybe with a toddler in tow while heavily pregnant (yes, that’s me), stealing some time alone with your partner in the midst of all this joyous celebrating can be tricky. On the other hand, Christmas comes with a host of reasons that are likely to throw a spanner in the romantic works. There is a well-recognized spike in birth rates in September, to the extent that a British midwife took to Twitter this September to ask her fellow Brits to stop having sex over Christmas because her delivery ward was simply stretched to the brink.įor some, the holidays are clearly a time of merry enjoyment of each other’s company.