A couple desperate for a baby managed to conceive while one of them was asleep.
After 18 months of trying, Ryan Harris utlimately impregnanted his wife Dee while he was sound asleep. Ironically, the couple was about to start fertility treatment when she discovered she was pregnant.
Harris, 28, has a rare medical condition known as sexsomnia, which leads him to perform sexual acts he later cannot remember. Regularly he wakes 25-year-old Dee for sex without regaining consciousness himself.
The first time it happened, customer service assistant Dee allegedly sent Ryan a text saying "last night was great", then found he had no idea what she was talking about. Since then, she keeps records of their middle-of-the-night trysts.
"When I looked back, it was clear I'd conceived on a night we had 'sleep sex' as we call it — which means I'm half-awake and Ryan is actually totally asleep," says Dee. "That night Ryan took me by surprise. It put more of the fun back into [trying to conceive] — and it clearly worked."
The Basingstoke, England, couple were together for eight years before their son Lincoln, now 16 months old, was born.
Apparently she enjoys sex sleep because it's more intense and lasts longer, which the couple directly attributes to their son's conception.
Would you find it weird to have sex if your partner wasn't fully conscious?
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