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Some women are completely overwhelmed by the fear of childbirth. Here’s MM’s tips on…


How to have a happy birth day


video that she’d had to watch in her early teens at school. ‘I swear it traumatised me to this day,’ she


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said at the time. ‘I haven’t had children and now I can’t look at anything to do with childbirth. It absolutely disgusts me.’ Most women will at some point worry


about giving birth, and worries over issues such as how painful the labour will be, how big the baby will be etc, are perfectly common. But Helen Mirren’s fear of childbirth goes way beyond this typical anxiety. Tis fear – known as tokophobia - is a


debilitating fear of childbirth which, in many cases, is so profound that it can lead to a complete avoidance of pregnancy or, alternatively, lead to a pregnancy that’s absolutely filled with terror and extreme anxiety. Te most devastating effect of tokophobia


is that many women, like Mirren, would dearly love to have a child, but resist becoming pregnant, such is the level of their fear. >


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ctress Helen Mirren once described how her fear of childbirth had been created by being exposed to a childbirth


Tokophobia is a debilitating fear of childbirth which, in many cases, is so profound that it can lead to a complete avoidance of pregnancy


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