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So you're scared of getting pregnant? I found some info

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  So, I figured out what it’s called. Tokophobia . I wasn’t expecting the name to sound like that. “Toko”  phobia. Lol doesn’ t sound normal to me. Primary Tokophobia, the fear of pregnancy and/or childbirth. Tbh I don’t know why every woman doesn’t have this. The part that got to me was the reasons they gave for why a person with tokophobia thinks of it. Like fear of the imagined labour pain, or fear of body changes , or low pain thresholds . All concerns are valid , but th o s e aren’t mine . Although, now that I think about it, it could be part of it for me too. My body changing, truly, to never being the same again. That’s quite a change honestly when you think about it, from probably getting blind to my puss changing completely and then kids!!... and the body scars and the possibility of dying, and how often you hear about women, especially black women, dying so easily , because of little things in the delivery room. I am scared frankly because, like most of my fears- religious