Fear of Childbirth Workbook: birth anxiety, tokophobia, scared to give birth. The fear is allowed.
A forty-page workbook for the fear of giving birth. Validates the fear, names the specific sub-fears, and offers tools that are not platitudes. Two-page workbooks for the six biggest fears, pain, loss of control, mom-complications, baby-complications, interventions, the unknown. Scripts for telling the team you are scared. The night-before-labor page. Routing to perinatal mental-health care when the anxiety is bigger than the workbook can hold. Crisis lines.
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You are afraid of giving birth.
You have been told to “trust your body.” You have been told “women have done this for thousands of years.” You have been told that the fear is irrational. None of those have helped, because the fear is not irrational. Birth is a real event with real risks and real intensity. The fear is information about a body about to do something enormous.
This workbook treats the fear seriously. It names what you are actually afraid of, not “the birth” in the abstract. It gives tools that are not platitudes. It gives you scripts for telling the medical team you are scared. It routes you to perinatal mental-health care when the anxiety is bigger than the workbook can hold.
What’s inside
Forty pages, fillable:
- A note before you start. Why fear is not weakness.
- “Birth IS scary.” A validating page.
- The fear inventory. Naming the specific fears.
- Six 2-page fear workbooks:
- Pain
- Loss of control
- Complications for you
- Complications for the baby
- Interventions you might not want
- The unknown
- “What would help me, specifically” page.
- Scripts for telling the team you are scared.
- The night-before-labor page.
- The “I am not okay” page. With crisis lines.
- A final letter.
Format
Instant-download PDF, US Letter + A4. Personal use only.
From Soothemade Notes, a small apothecary of printables, planners, and cards for the unphotographed parts of new parenthood. Made slowly, in plain language.
