Having fear and
anxiety about childbirth can increase your chances of having a painful, high - intervention labor.
Anxiety about childbirth may start to make relaxation harder — and sleep more difficult to come by.
Not exact matches
Many women feel
anxiety or fear
about childbirth because they have never experienced it before.
I'm sure the reason I have so little
anxiety about labor and birth is because I took a
childbirth education class and doula training back in my early twenties, before I was even certain that I wanted to have kids.
Being able to alleviate your
anxiety about the entire process can go a long way in lessening the pain of
childbirth.
It talked
about how people who had been sexually abused or assaulted were more likely to feel violated by
childbirth and had higher instances of postpartum depression and
anxiety.
Postpartum Blues: Feelings of sadness, fear, anger, or
anxiety occurring
about 3 days after
childbirth and usually ending within 1 — 2 weeks.