Do you know any women who are afraid of needles who have children?

Um..yes, of course! I know a number of women who are almost pathological about a fear of shots, but still get themselves (and their children) vaccinated. Trypanophobia didn’t enter into their child bearing decisions at all.

I think you may be confusing coincidence with causation.

I have a pathological fear of being made to eat eggs but I managed to have children.

@canidmajor I’m not confused. Of course I know it might be coincidence.

@janbb You really can be a piece of work. How about be nice or keep scrolling and also your 4 friends so far who liked your answer.

@JLeslie It’s actually true and I just don’t see the connection you’re making in your OP. If you could laugh at yourself occasionally…...

I know a bunch of women who don’t have children, (women I worked with and for, and women in the book group, for example), but I never asked why they didn’t have kids. Even though we’re friends, I figured if it was something they’d want to discuss, they would, but it might be sensitive so I didn’t bring it up. As far as I know, none of them are very scared of needles.

Yeah, I think so. I have a distant relative who is highly anxious about a lot of things. I’m sure her anxiety includes needles/medical procedures, etc. She has two kids, one highly anxious. She’s doing her best to manage her anxiety for her kids (and herself, I’m sure). She’s really doing much better than I would have guessed. She and I have talked briefly about how to help her kids with their anxiety over things like dental procedures. I don’t know that “I’m proud of her” is the right phrase here, but I’m impressed with how well she seems to be coping with parenthood. I know when she was pregnant, she was terrified of childbirth. I can relate to that. But that’s maybe a different Q.

@Cupcake Yes. I think most of us who have been pregnant are terrified of childbirth.

Well sure, I actually wrote in the OP most women have fears about pregnancy and childbirth and still go ahead and choose to get pregnant.

i do know women who were so worried about their girly parts getting messed up they did a c-section, and I know women who hired a surrogate to not stretch out their body. I have a relative by marriage who doesn’t want to get pregnant because of what she assumes it will do to her body.

So, there are all sorts of reasons women don’t want to get pregnant or deliver. Most women just do it anyway, because they want the baby more than their fears or possible negative outcomes.

You don’t see a connection between fear of medical procedures and having a baby? We don’t live in 18th century Galicia. Most pregnant women have blood drawn multiple times during pregnancy and have an IV when they deliver. Women can refuse it all I guess. If something is going wrong with the pregnancy, God forbid, they might have no choice but to get stuck with some needles or risk their life.