Jessie Hewitson had a bad dream of how her horror of a pregnancy early in their teens. Excessive fear of pregnancy makes it a phobia because it sure can not tolerate the pain of childbirth.

Since then, every pregnant woman Jessie saw a panic, her hands trembled and her feelings became very frightened. But the phobia was now pregnant even pregnant.

Pregnancy makes Jessie became very depressed. Jessie became often confused, often contracted and always asked why he allowed himself to become pregnant.

Jessie is 6 months pregnant was once hospitalized because of an attack of excessive fear of pregnancy. Until now she had to struggle to overcome her depression because of the growing shadow unable to give birth. Pregnant phobia typically experienced by most victims of rape. But now many women who also had a phobia pregnant.

More extreme at times when pregnant, the phobic patient is doing excessive exercise, punched her stomach, drinking alcohol, smoking so often judged by the husband, family and people around her. And they do this out of control in excess of their fear. There was a fetus in the body makes them very scared.

Extreme fear of childbirth or tokophobia, was first identified in 2000 by Dr. Kristin Hofberg and very surprising findings public. Tokophobia experienced 1 of 6 women.

Hofberg separate patients into two categories, namely tokophobes (tokophobia patients) of primary and secondary tokophobes. Primary Tokophobes is an excessive fear on the first delivery. While secondary tokophobia is fear that arises because of the trauma of the previous delivery.

What distinguishes tokophobia with pregnant pregnant anxiety is the fear of excessive labor. Some tokophobes think they will die, others imagined something unbearable happens.

The most common characteristic is the fear of a normal delivery. But not the fear of childbirth, or fault surgically. But there are some women who consider both processes as chilling. For people with phobias pregnant, the baby growing inside her belly is very disturbing their activities, so they do not want to become pregnant.

Psychotherapist Graham Price, who has treated many patients with this condition, says there are certain triggers that cause it such as a victim of rape or traumatic experiences.

Fear of this phobia sufferers will increase when she heard a horrible birth story or to see direct delivery. TV footage that shows the negative things about the birth can also trigger tokophobia.

According to Price, tokophobes be very hard trying to not get pregnant. Most of them always use contraception every time connected, there is also a very panicky pregnancy and try to have an abortion.

"I read all about childbirth, but I am afraid just because a wild imagination," said Alison Ellerbrook, who also experienced in pregnancy tokophobia first daughter, as reported by the Guardian.

According to Alison, in the third trimester she often cries and restless. She panicked and nightmares about childbirth. And at the time of delivery she became very frightened, and doctors diagnosed with postnatal depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. It took two years to restore the condition, and now he's afraid to make a second delivery.

Cesarean process is often done on tokophobes. The majority of women, of course, does not have the trauma of childbirth. Most women experience a very positive thing at the time of delivery. They fought the fear and understand that a woman's body is designed to give birth.