I was staying the night with Laura and Bob; they were conveniently sited near one of our major suppliers and I took the opportunity to visit them about twice a year when I had a meeting. Laura was my wife's cousin, a pretty, rather conventional woman my own age. She had nice legs and a neat, small bust, light brown hair and a wide smile, but I had only occasionally thought of her as a sex object (at least, no more than any other woman). But the last time I had stayed with them Laura had been 7 months pregnant, huge and taut, and her bust had developed impressively. I find pregnant woman very sexy and always want to make love to them. Laura let me feel the baby kicking inside her swollen belly through her thin dress, and I had to stop my hand straying downwards . . . I held my ear against her hot drum and perhaps she wondered why I liked it so much. She looked utterly feminine and very sexy. I thought of the different positions she would have had to explore when making love.
This visit was two months after the birth and Laura's figure was back to normal, apart from her breasts which were gloriously full. Her daughter seemed to be thriving on her mother's milk, but Laura looked tired and the healthy bloom of pregnancy had disappeared.
I got up just as Bob went off to work - my meeting wasn't until lunch time so I could afford to be leisurely. Laura was sitting at the breakfast table with Sally, her baby, on her knee. She wore a long white night-gown with bra cups, and her hair was loose. We chatted easily; I had always got on well with her. Sally was fractious and her mother said 'She's hungry - you don't mind if I feed her do you?' I know some people object to seeing a woman breastfeed - I can't imagine why.
'Not if you don't,' I said.
She undid the front of her gown and released one breast from its cup. Sally grabbed it easily and fell silent. I tried to talk but it was obvious that Laura's mind was not on my words. I noticed she was pressing hard on her unoccupied breast with her wrist. I looked at her face and was surprised by her expression of utter bliss.
'Do you enjoy breastfeeding, Laura?' I asked softly.
'Mmm, I do,' she smiled at me radiantly. 'I feel a bit guilty really, sometimes I think I enjoy it more than Sally does.'
She looked down at her free breast. 'Oh, dear, I'm leaking again. I've just got too much milk. As soon as she sucks on one side the other one starts too. I need three hands.' She was trying to stuff a pad down the inside of the cup.
'Can I help?'
'Oh, would you? Do you mind? If you could just hold this pad . . .'
She released the cup and I pressed the pad against her engorged nipple. I was surprised to find her breast hard, the nipple even harder. She looked quickly at me, embarrassed.
'Bob won't help. He feels a bit turned off by it all.'
'I'm not. I think it's really beautiful.'
She was quiet, Sally sucking, me pressing her breast trying not to do anything sensuous. Suddenly I noticed that Laura was weeping silently.
'What's wrong, Laura?'
She shook her head. 'This is the only pleasure I get nowadays. You can't imagine what it's like . . '
'What do you mean?'
'Bob and I . . . haven't . . made love since I got pregnant. He didn't seem to find me attractive any more whereas . . . well, some women . . . when they're pregnant they seem to feel . . .well, more sexy somehow. At least once I'd got over the morning sickness in the first couple of months. Did you know that?' She was obviously having trouble telling me.
'Yes, I did know. And I thought you looked lovely last time I saw you. You looked so feminine . . . and very sexy too.'
'I was really going up the wall by the time Sally arrived. Afterwards, when I'd healed up - it didn't take long - I thought things might get back to normal. But they haven't. . . I'm tired, but I just feel so . . .'
'Horny?' I whispered.
'Oh Phil, I don't know what to do.'
I knew . ..
'It's time to change sides,' she said. 'Get ready with a new pad, will you?'
We managed the swap very easily. Her other nipple, despite its sucking, was equally hard. I stared at her tautly swollen breasts, my mind in a whirl.
'I've got so much milk, there's far too much for her, I have to express lots.'
'Do you find breastfeeding arousing?' I asked.
'It sounds awful, but yes, I do, very. It's heavenly. I think I'd . . . well, climax, you know . . . if I let myself. But I'd feel so guilty.' She laughed shortly.
'You poor thing,' I said. 'You must be so frustrated.'