Hypnobabies = wonky dreams?

[jecombs]

So I started my Hypnobabies about a week ago. I haven't listened to my scripts as often as I should, but I've done really well about listening to the affirmations daily and reading and re-reading the book. Before I started the program and for a few days after I had been having wonderful dreams about birth and how easy it was going to be. Most of the dreams were about my son just slipping out easily and me catching him myself. Well for the past 5 or so nights, the dreams have changed. I can't really recall what happens in them, I just wake up feeling kinda anxious.

Has anyone else had this happen? Do you think the Hypnobabies is causing my subconscious fears to surface so I can deal with them? Sometimes when I'm listening to my CDs I also find myself having thoughts of "What if I put all this time and effort into this program and it doesn't help me at all?"

I haven't gotten to the Fear Clearing sessions yet... maybe they will help when I get there.

[hapersmion]

I think Pregnancy = Wonky Dreams.

I haven't tried hypnobabies though, so can't help you there.

[Jenica]

Hypnobabies has only been giving me the wonderful dreams. I have the same ones where the baby slips out and I catch her myself. Seems like your theory could be valid. I didn't have much fears about giving birth to start with so maybe that's why I'm not experiencing it?

[akat]

That's interesting. I've had several dreams where my baby just, like, falls out into my hands with no pain, sounds just like yours.

I started Hypnobabies really early in my pregnancy, and then started having similar fears about it. I didn't have any wonky dreams, though. But another big problem I had was I have restless leg syndrome, made even worse by pregnancy, so whenever I try to 'deeply relax', it actually activates my twitchy legs and makes me miserable. Plus, if it can't even stop my twitchy legs, how's it gonna help me in labor, right?

But, I paid for it and still wanted to do it, so now that I'm on 'maternity leave', I finally started listening again - and it actually feels GREAT to listen to it, it wiped away a lot of the fears that have built up as I get closer to my edd, even without listening to the fear clearing. I feel like I have a 'helper' in the cds, something to lean on, and that it will enable me to have my VBAC. The actual fear clearing track didn't end up being as miraculous as I hoped, but just listening to all the rest of the tracks have cleared a lot of my fears. Also, since I did class 3, 4, and 5 at like, 38 weeks pregnant, I listened to them one after the other, instead of the schedule - which I think helped me trust the program instead of listening to one cd for a week and wondering if the program's gonna get more helpful 3 weeks from now...

I also decided to work around the twitchy leg problem by spending more time in the 'center' switch position rather than 'off', even when the tapes tell me to be 'off'. And my RLS is better now that I'm not working and on my feet all day, so it's less of a barrier.

Anyway, sorry to write you a novel, but just wanted to tell you everything in case any of it is helpful. I do think it's worth listening to the rest of the tracks before you give up on it, even maybe go ahead and listen to everything in a row, then go back and do the schedule.

[St. Margaret]

I had crazy dreams while pregnant (like, having kittens, having to leave my tiny baby with a sitter or something, I don't even remember. I think that's just pregnancy. You'll do the fear cleansing CD and it's great. I did the program with my DD and it was a wonderful (first) birthing experience. I'm going to work even more next time around on focusing on loosening up, but really DH likes to tell and retell how I napped through transition I didn't even get to practice very much at all (I was teaching up until a week before birth, hard to pratice in a classroom always full of kids and student teachers... with no place to rest fully supported) but I did the CDs at night (and fell asleep evey time). And it was great, really helped me to live in the idea of relaxing, believing in myself, etc.

[yippiehippie]

I'm 29w and i never really have had any dreams about birthing time, before or after i started doing hypnobabies. i do think it's perfectly natural to think it's not going to work and/or it's not working...some days listening to the tracks i just cant seem to get comfortable, so i, too keep the switch in the middle. I think when they have you keep your switch off and not move it sometimes makes you want to move more!
Like it says, just ignore any doubts and trust that it will work even if it doesn't seem like it does sometimes and i guess we'll see!

[jecombs]

Thanks for the feed-back ladies! I think I'm just going to keep going with the program and see where it leads me. No birthing dreams of any kind for the past couple of nights, but that could be because my 2.5 yr old DD has not been sleeping well, so therefore neither have I!