I’m Young, Childless, And Scared To Death Of Labor  I was around
12 years old when I became truly aware of my fear of childbirth.
Perhaps it came with the onset of puberty, but ever since I was
a little girl I've been terrified of labor.  I've always had a
low threshold for pain coupled with a high sensitivity to gore.
I've never been able to watch a slasher film without covering my
eyes. I've never been able to hear about a surgery or a medical
procedure without feeling a bit faint. I'm still very much the
adult who has to be treated like a child when I have blood taken
as the nurses cycle through questions about the street I grew up
on and my mother's maiden name.  Hospitals have always made me
uncomfortable, the sight of blood makes me light-headed, and
pain - any type of extreme corporal pain - makes my breath
quicken. But as I got into my teen years, I found that I was
shielding my eyes from child-birthing scenes with the same
immediacy as those slasher films and by the time I finally had
high school hea