The international journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica (AOGS) recently published a study headed by Professor Gunilla Sydsjo, a Swedish professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University Hospital in Linkoping, Central Sweden, which revealed that women who reported a fear of childbirth tended to experience emergency and elective cesareans at a rate higher than those of their counterparts who reported no fear of childbirth. Induction of labor was also more common amongst women who feared childbirth.
Check out ScienceDaily’s article on the study here.
For an Abstract of the study on PubMed, click here.
