Childbirth fear vs. faith: The battle every mother faces

Childbirth is often painted as beautiful and natural — but for many women, the fear is overwhelming.

And that fear has a name: tokophobia.

Tokophobia is defined as an extreme fear of childbirth that can cause some women to take excessive measures in order to avoid pregnancy. And Abbie Halberstadt, a mother of 10, while a major advocate for pregnancy and childbirth, understands those women who are paralyzed with fear.

When she was a few weeks out from her labor with her eighth child, she started having “significant anxiety in the evenings.”

“This is my number eight ... and I have tokophobia. I mean, I am like, ‘I can’t do this again. Like, I can’t,'” she tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable,” explaining that she had the closest thing she’s ever had to a “full-blown pa