Aim: This study is carried out in order to investigate occurence of fear in primiparas as well as to determine the causes of that fear. Methods: The study was carried out from march 2015 til april 2015 in specialistic pediatric ambulance dr.med.spec.ped. Velinka Jukić in Sinj. Upon the first examination of an infant, the questionnaire was given to the mothers. After fullfilling the questionnaire they were supposed to dispose it on for that purpose provided spot. This survey was completely anonimous and participation was volountary. Questionnarie was modified and previously used for the purposes of writing a thesis by student Blaženka Špika in 2014. Data provided by the questionnaires was entered in Microsoft Excel tables according to the previously prepared code plan. Descriptive statistics was used for processing of the results. Results: Thirty seven examinees of mean age being 27 years (16-41) participated in this study. Most of the examinees has graduated from high school, while one examinee has graduated from elementary school. The number of employed and unemployed examinees was the same, while one examinee is retired. Most of the examinees is in formal or informal marital union and most of them (N=11) live in their own apartment or house together with their spouse. Ten examinees live in rented apartments, the same number lives together with the family of the spouse, and two of them live with their own parents. None of the examinees did not estimate her socioeconomic status as being bad, in the other words – none of them is receiving dole from the state. 76% of examinees describe their pregnancy as being normal, while 19% experienced fear, nausea, vomiting... 5% of examinees (N=2) had some health issue during pregnancy (gestational diabetes (N=1) and infection (N=1)). All of them said that dominant maternal feeling is happiness. Twelve examinees mentioned fear and concern together with happiness and joy. The most important cause of fear was child's first bath (N=21), hygiene of umbilical stump (N=14), breast feeding (N=12) and diet of a mother (N=16) (figure 9). Conclusion: Results of this study have shown that, even though only 12 examinees mentioned fear and concern together with dominant feeling of happiness and joy, 97% (N=36) managed to recognize one of the aswers from the questionnaire as being the matter of concern when it comes to the infant care. The major causes of fear were first bath (N=21), hygiene of umbilical stump (N=14), breast feeding (N=12) and diet of a mother (N=16). Taking into account that this study included relatively small number of examinees (37), it is advisable to carry it out including a bigger sample.