Tokophobia: Scared of Childbirth
This phobia is related to overanxious women over the topic of childbirth and pregnancy. The women who experience this phobia will neglect giving birth or becoming pregnant altogether. If by any chance they are unable to terminate their pregnancy, they'll shift for the C-section, then going for the vaginal birth.
These women don't dislike kids but, the pathological fear stops them. This phobia can be observed in new mothers and even in moms who experienced traumatic birth incidents.
Some men even experience Tokophobia, where they fear extremely about the safety, and health of their partner, and the baby.
Symptoms:
Tokophobia comes under the category of specific phobia, further categorised under anxiety disorder where excessive and irrational fear is observed over certain situations or objects.
After knowing about what Tokophobia is, now let's figure the symptoms of this phobia.
1. Panic Attacks are quite common.
2. Sleep disturbances can occur frequently.
3 Nightmares can worsen the situation.
4 The woman facing this phobia will often have an avoiding behavior for the situation.
This story is from the So Parenting By Dr Dad - October 22 edition of So Parenting.
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