Jun 10, 2019 | Blog, Tokophobia
Tokophobia is the extreme fear of pregnancy and birth. It affects around 14% of women so you would think that it was reasonably well known and that help was available. But it isn’t, and help or support is hard to come by. Overcoming tokophobia is the kind of...
Jun 3, 2019 | Birth Prep, Blog, Planning pregnancy, Pregnancy, Tokophobia
Feeling scared of birth is very common and is not necessarily something to worry about. It’s a time of massive change so it’s normal for us to feel fear on some level. Fear gets a bad rep, but actually it’s a good thing. Our fear is alerting us to possible...
May 27, 2019 | Blog, Tokophobia
What is tokophobia? Tokophobia is a pathological fear of pregnancy and birth. The word comes from Greek ‘tokos’ meaning childbirth and ‘phobos’ which means fear. Phobias are a type of anxiety disorder that typically involve an intensely...
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...
