People with tokophobia have a very intense fear of pregnancy or childbirth. Although there is no established definition or treatment, healthcare professionals can help people cope with tokophobia.

A 35-year-old woman claims the fear of teenage pregnancy years ago has made her not want to have a baby, ever. Adelaide, Australia-based Samantha King refuses to get pregnant after she said her ...

This normal nervousness, though, is very different from the extreme fear of pregnancy and childbirth, which is known as tokophobia. Tokophobia is a severe fear of childbirth. There are two kinds ...

Yet, for some, the thought of carrying a child evokes an unrelenting dread. Tokophobia, the extreme fear of pregnancy and childbirth, is seldom spoken about, its depth obscured by the assumption ...

Now, the mother of one feels the best she ever has in herself after completely cutting out birth control and her fear of pregnancy has since been wiped.

I see a pregnant belly and my instinct is to retreat to avoid any possibility of being invited to touch it. I have an extreme fear of pregnancy and giving birth. I’m not just talking about the ...

In a thought-provoking post on X, Musk suggested a paradigm shift, urging people to move away from instilling fear of pregnancy and, instead focus on the fear of of what would come in a world with ...