Jan 31, 2019 | Mindset, Planning pregnancy, Podcast, Pregnancy, Tokophobia
Prenatal psychology is an area of psychology that looks at the psychological changes that women go through from conception to postpartum. If you’re going to better understand your fears and anxieties during pregnancy then I think understanding prenatal...
Jan 17, 2019 | Planning pregnancy, Podcast, Tokophobia
How to tell if you know a woman with tokophobia Tokophobia is the extreme fear of pregnancy and birth. It’s not very well known and yet it can affect a lot of women. This extreme or pathological fear of birth is estimated to affect between 4 and 43% of women. 14% is...
Oct 11, 2018 | Planning pregnancy, Podcast, Pregnancy, Tokophobia
The Fear Free Childbirth podcast is back! After a year off, I’m back… lots of great episodes coming too! In this episode, I talk about my new book, Fearless Birthing. I get lots of emails asking what reading people should do, well, my answer to that is...
Sep 24, 2018 | Blog, Mindset, Planning pregnancy, Pregnancy, Tokophobia
There has been a lot of debate recently around fear of birth and tokophobia, the pathological fear of birth and pregnancy. Much of this debate has centred on the culprits that are being blamed for the rise in women experiencing fear of birth and these culprits have...
May 25, 2017 | Birth Stories, Podcast, Tokophobia
Today I’m sharing a fabulous positive birth story on the podcast. It’s fabulous because it’s positive and empowering birth, obviously. But also because it’s a tokophobia birth story. I’m joined today by Cee Fee Dunn who admits to being...
Mar 13, 2017 | Blog, Tokophobia
Are you childfree and want to stay that way? If so, is that a positive choice, or one made from a place of fear? It might not be easy to say at first because our fear plays tricks on us. I thought I wanted to be childfree Back in the day, when I was a high-achieving...
