For Professionals
If you support women through pregnancy and birth, here are some things you might find useful – tools, reading, and downloads to help you recognise and support reproductive fear in your practice.
Tools
Validated instruments to help you screen for and understand reproductive fear in the women you work with.
A comprehensive assessment measuring psychological readiness for birth across 15 dimensions. Use it to identify where your client's fear sits and track their progress.
Assessment Tool
A quick screening tool your clients can take themselves. Shareable – useful for initial conversations about fear and for validating what they're experiencing.
Free · Shareable
A deeper assessment that maps your client's anxiety patterns across multiple dimensions. Helps identify the root emotional blocks driving reproductive fear.
Assessment Tool
Reading
White papers, books, and frameworks to inform your practice and give you the language to talk about reproductive fear with confidence.
The white paper making the case for Reproductive Anxiety Disorder as a distinct clinical category. Essential background for any perinatal professional.
White Paper
How commercial interests profit from pregnancy fear – and what professionals need to know to counter the narrative.
White Paper
The book that reframes reproductive fear as biology, not weakness. Written for sufferers but essential reading for professionals who want to understand the lived experience.
Book
Too much content about pregnancy and birth scares women unnecessarily. RAD Responsible is a movement for content creators, educators, and professionals who want to change that. Publish responsibly. Stop the fear. Earn the badge.
Learn about RAD ResponsibleA space for perinatal professionals to ask questions, share experiences, and connect with others doing this work. Open and free.
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