I have a phobia of pregnancy/child birth

I have this strong phobia of pregnancy.
I do take care and use protection, but if my period is over 3 days late, common sense is taken over by my dominating panic that I might have conceived. I am beyond terrified of this, I become an emotional wreck because not only can I not financially mind a child, but just the thought of the actual conceiving is absolutely HORRIFYING and makes me sick to my stomach.
I can best describe the thought of pregnancy is like that of being implanted by an alien, as in the film 'Alien', where a parasite that you do not know about is growing inside you, and feeding off you and trying to suck the life out of you, which it does once it's born, if it doesn't kill me in birth, it will suck my life away in it's living.
I do not understand how other women strive and pine for the feeling of pregnancy and dream about the day they will give birth, as I think newborn babies look like something out of this planet, with their hanging and podgy necks and their muffled and strained sounds and toothless gums.

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  • blackkittie84

    I feel exactly the same way

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  • greenapplegirl

    I have the fear as well. For most of my life I went along thinking oh I'll have babies one day la la la. Then my eyes were opened up to the horror that is childbirth (and pregnancy). Where to start? I have a very weak stomach... which means I'd probably be vomiting almost constantly for 9 months. Babies kick your ribs while inside of you. Pregnancy causes hemorrhoids. Before you know it, you're sneezing and peeing. Then labor.. severe pains, 12 inch needles in the spine, pooping and vomiting on the table while your pants are off and your legs spread. Oh god I can't even talk about these things anymore.

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  • waterbottle123

    I used to think the same way. I even went so far to think that the childbirth and labor process was sick, twisted, disgusting, shameful, this piece of "excrement" is coming out of ur body...

    now i have totally changed idk why maybe ive matured, maybe i started listening to my body ...
    i love little kids so that makes it a little better...

    but childbirth really grosses me out still.

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  • sodawitch

    i don't understand how ppl think it's magical and all that bullshit its more like something from a sci-fi fims 0.o i think we have evolved enough as a species to move beyond this! do we rly need to carry the things in us for 9 months and then scream and bleed all over the place for hours having the thing ...and the whole YOU COULD DIE while having it thing yea thts always fun...i seriously wish i was a dude simply b/c i wanna have kids but not be the one pregnant with them ... i agree with you but yea i rly don't think it's the norm...i don't understand why...

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  • PREGNANCYISHOT

    It has gotten to the point where I had to buy a 9 months practise pregnant belly suite which I had to give up in March 2013, since my one and only bf found it and took to a charity shop. However I never really said that I had brought it or why. I feel empty without it.

    I loved to still act very very fat and pregnant too wearing tight clothes (sometimes I wear an old swimming suite stuffed to the max) and a very tight belt. It does not feel the same anymore, and does not feel like I am carrying a baby.

    Reading all of these comments on this website about pregnancy, sex, masturbating and porn turns me on, so wet!!!! God help me.... towel rubbing me feeling so nice

    I am pre-longing the end so much it is making me feel like crap, like I am not having a baby :-(, I do that so much these days. Cannot say why I love to make it last so long that the feeling turns to crap and not like nice masturbating anymore

    It is an itch that want go away lol I agree without some pregnancy porn at times to masturbate too, it would not be so good. Everyone should enjoy porn now and again, or sexy things which turn them on - for me big fat pregnant tummies.

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  • kittyluv

    i enjoy cheese.

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  • I think it's normal XD I'm terrified of the thought of something growing inside of me, and it's all fairly disgusting (yeah, I don't see how childbirth is "beautiful" - loads of pain, screaming and blood.) I actually had a dream/nightmare last night that I was pregnant, in hospital and ready to give birth. I feel a bit traumatized now. It was absolutely horrifying .__.
    I never want to get pregnant. I think if I ever want a baby I'll adopt one, because on top of the phobia of actually having the baby myself, I think the world is overpopulated and I don't want to add to that problem.

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  • silly_person

    i feel the same way. the simple thought of giving birth terrifies me and strikes me as a terrible..injury.
    nhec.

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  • SweetSherry

    I wish I was pregnant

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  • sherry

    I can see fear of childbirth but the rest of it is bizarre. Not normal at all.

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  • First part is really understandable, second part where you take your anxiety and convert it to Alien 5 is pretty extreme.

    Calm down and do something useful like double up on your birth control - that is use multiple methods at the same time.

    Or lay off intercourse altogether.

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