In 2000, an article published in the British Journal of Psychiatry described the fear of childbirth as a psychological disorder that has received little attention and may be overlooked.
[8] Recognition of tokophobia and close liaison with obstetricians or other medical specialists can help to reduce its severity and ensure efficient treatment.
This may relate back to their own mother's experience or be triggered by exposure to childbirth without adequate explanation at a young age.
For parous women, a previous negative birth experience is often the underlying cause of fear of childbirth (tokophobia).
Sometimes the negative birth experience is strongly correlated to having experienced imminent danger to the health of the child, such as having an emergency caesarean section [10-11].