maternal anxiety
A mom's concern
Maternal anxiety is worry or fear experienced by mothers concerning their children's safety, health, or well-being.
The term appears in psychology and parenting contexts to describe both ordinary protective concern and more intense, potentially disabling anxiety: Her maternal anxiety spiked whenever the baby slept too quietly.
It can also describe anxiety a pregnant woman experiences about childbirth or her ability to parent.
- worryTroubled mental state
- what ifWords introducing a hypothesis
- first-time momWoman's initial motherhood
- protectiveServing to guard
- overwhelmDefeat by excess
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