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  • noun Alternative form of tokophobia.

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Examples

  • Childbirth doesn't carry the risks it did a century ago, but plenty of women are still utterly terrified of the process - a fear known as tocophobia.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Dakshana Bascaramurty 2011

  • Celts, Celtic Celtophobia cemeteries coimetrophobia certain places topophobia challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation heresyphobia or hereiophobia changes metathesiophobia changes (making) tropophobia chemicals or working with chemicals chickens alektorophobia childbirth or pregnancy tocophobia

    pangsuan Diary Entry pangsuan 2003

  • At its worst, tocophobia can be so profound that some women, even those who yearn for children, choose not to get pregnant.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2010

  • It was not until 2000, when the psychiatrist Kristina Hofberg published a paper on the severe and morbid fear of childbirth known as tocophobia, that the term began to be recognised and researched; until then, it appears, women’s terror was regarded as being of little interest.

    ‘Yes he’s alive but I’m not OK’: the bloody truth about childbirth Gaby Hinsliff 2018

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