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I am so scared of preganancy and birth

As a woman, I've been so scared or preganancy my whole life, when I was younger with unrestricted device control, I had stumbled across those youtube videos where women vlog their births documenting their births, ever since, I've been so fucking scared, the screams the way they were positioned whilst screaming to the top of their lungs, them shaking in pain, showing the epidural which IS A HUGE FUCKING NEEDLE scares the living shit out of me. Then I look at all the women that were pregnant and I'm like HOW did you guys do it?? Pushing a whole ass baby, just makes my eyes want to pop out my skull. On top of that pregnancy scares me a ton, I had heard one lady break her rib from being pregnant and because she was pregnant and the baby kept kicking her rib, it wouldn't heal, LIKE WTF! I understand wanting children but damn isn't there any other way! Honestly is there any women who feels the same? Whenever my parents go "You'll have kids one day.." it just freaks me out so badly, I guess I've developed an irrational? fear against pregnancies and birth that I don't want kids, but yeah comment down if you also feel the same way? I honestly feel so alone whenever I tell someone this because they all go, but when the baby comes you forget, WHAT!

Posted Mar 14, 2026, 12:32 AM UTC

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