The Pregnancy Fear Nobody Names-One Mother’s Search for an Answer

LOS ANGELES, July 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Glady Ferguson, a mother of three, prepared for her first pregnancy the way most mothers do: with birth classes, a doula and a birth plan. What she didn't prepare for was a fear she couldn't identify: a persistent worry that she wasn't going to survive labor. In a recent episode of the podcast This Incredible Mom Life, she described what that fear cost her and what made it go away. An analysis published in the American Journal of Public Health found