Last month there was a study done in The international journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica (AOGS) that said women who have Tokophobia, the fear of childbirth, were more likely to have a C-Section.
You can read the full Science Daily report here
In fact the statistics were sited as saying that induction of delivery, which often results in having a C-section, was more common among women that had a fear of childbirth as compared to women without such fears.
Also women who fear childbirth were more likely to request they deliver by C-Section.
This follows suit with a post I did back in August, 2008 about Tokophobia, which at the time, was not something I was very familiar with, but I soon found out that fear of childbirth was a severe debilitating disease affecting about 1 in 7 women. Read more »