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.

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Tokophobia is an extreme fear of childbirth, which causes women to take excessive measures to avoid getting pregnant.

Tokophobia is an intense fear of pregnancy and childbirth. (Getty Images) Tokophobia is an intense fear of pregnancy — more specifically, it's an overwhelming, debilitating phobia of childbirth, ...

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Tokophobia refers to an excessive and unreasonable fear of pregnancy and childbirth. This may be primary or secondary. Primary tokophobia occurs before a woman ever becomes pregnant. The stimulus may ...

It’s hardly irrational to be afraid of pregnancy and childbirth; we are talking about growing and expelling another human being from your body, after all. But for some women, this amounts to something ...

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