I wanted to share my story since I know there is a lot of women in here and pregnancy can be super scary for people with this phobia due to the morning sickness.
I’m currently 8 months post-partum. I had my son via scheduled c section 8/20/25. My day started pretty normal I woke up to my water breaking and immediately got anxious because I didn’t think I could actually deal with the pain of labor and so many people say they throw up because of it, a few hours later I was in the operating room about to meet my son. They gave me a pep talk that if I’m gonna throw up just turn my head and let it go, I told them about my phobia so they kept me pretty full of antiemetics which was great.
About an hour later we were in our room and I had really bad tremors which is a side effect of the different medications they give you during the procedure, I was holding my son & looked at my husband and told him to take the baby. The nurses left a emesis bag next to me in case and I grabbed it and it happened. It honestly wasn’t that bad, the only part that sucked was the fact that I just had major abdominal surgery and had just gotten feeling back in my lower body, so that was extremely painful.
It happened 2 more times that day, and honestly I laughed at myself for being so scared of this for years and years. I still get anxious when I get nauseas but it’s definitely not as bad as it was before. I wouldn’t say I’m completely over it, I still have some work to do on it but having it happen so suddenly, without me being able to do anything to avoid it truly helped in a weird and twisted way.
I’d love to answer any questions anyone has who has fears of pregnancy due to this phobia & help the best way I can.