Dream Thread

[nfbmom]

A couple of women have mentioned that they've had some pretty vivid dreams lately so I wondered if anyone would like to share?

I'll start with the one that is quite recurring for me. I've had it 4 or 5 times already and it makes me a bit nervous although I still can't figure out how it could be possible.

I have a tiny little baby boy in a podegi type sling and I answer the door. I know it's someone in my family but I can never remember who it is. So I invite this person in, we sit on the couch and I start to tell them what happened with labor and birth. This baby is pretty tiny, like 5 lbs and I know that I went into labor more than a month early. I'm telling this person that there was very little labor and before I knew it the baby was sliding out of me and I had just enough time to catch him. I had called the midwife and she came over and checked him out and since he was breathing fine we weren't worried about him. I just needed to keep him really warm and nurse him as often as he was willing. I never see any of this happen, it's all told to this person.

So, since I've had it so many times I've wondered if it's actually a premonition but I can't figure out how it would be possible. Well, I do but it's a scary thought. I get that stitch put in my cervix and the only way I could deliver like that so early is if I tear the stitch but I cramp really bad when I've torn the stitch so you would think I would go to the Dr to find out what was going on if I'm cramping that bad. The only thing I can think of is that I had started to tear and since I'm fairly close to my dd and the Dr doesn't want my cervix torn anymore they take out the stitch anyway. So then I go home and have the baby? I don't know. Just me rambling and thinking out loud. Obviously it's not something I have to figure out in advance! LOL

Hopefully things will be just fine and I don't have to worry about having a premie baby at home.


Anyone else want to share?

[BCmamaof6]

First...let me say that I've had both kinds of dreams...the kind that are just 'your mind being overactive' & also premonition type dreams that have come true so accurately that it is total 'dejavu' that lasts for several minutes with everything playing out EXACTLY as it had in my dream(s).

I've been dreaming that this is a baby boy & that my husband tells me he's leaving me for a friend of ours who has a baby boy. I get (understandably) distraught. And my MIL says "what's your problem? you're getting upset over nothing" :

I think this is a result of my stressing about how we're going to tell my MIL (who will be furious that we're having a 6th baby) combined with me being worried about getting fat (I am naturally very tiny framed 5' 5" & 115 lbs.) while my DH is currently looking hotter by the minute (he's doing a well-known weight-training program)!!!

[secretresistance]

It seems like my dreams are around two central themes right now: Sex and having to pee.

Other than those main elements, it's like a big thought salad. Bits and pieces of conversations from days past work themselves into this weird brainwave tapestry. I'm really loving it though, it's cool to wake up and remember everything bit by bit.

Last night I dreamt that I was carrying my baby, and I had to pee so we went into a store. My baby promptly turned into my cat, and leapt up onto my shoulder as per usual. And I couldn't pee. I can never pee in my dreams, but I guess I should be grateful for that, because who knows what would happen in real life?

[Miss Juice]

Originally Posted by secretresistance

I can never pee in my dreams, but I guess I should be grateful for that, because who knows what would happen in real life?

I can tell you. Unless you like changing sheets in the middle of the night, never EVER pee in a dream. After one very memorable dream in which I searched for a toilet for hours, and found one, and...well now if I find myself looking for a bathroom in a dream it's an instant wake-up call. Like the dream stops and my brain screams "WAKE UP NOW!!"

My pregnancy dreams are either totally random and vivid and strange, or very graphically...adult in nature.

[Sailmom]

I dreamed I had a new baby girl last week. I don't remember much more other than her name was Miriam (not an option for us, but we have friends with a new baby named that so maybe that was where it came from) and I just remember her warm baby weight and smell and a lovely peaceful feeling. It really was a lovely dream.

[Ary99]

I had a dream last night that this baby is another little boy! Either way we would be so thrilled. It was such pure excitement!

[Glittergal]

My first pregnancy, I dreamed I had given birth to my daughter before I was even pregnant. We weren't trying but when we found out I was pregnant, I knew it was her. This time, I haven't had anything like that but I think the crazy dreams started last night! I woke up in a wet sweat after dreaming about a terrible fight with my FIL, who IRL, I despise. I also dreamt two of my good (and very single) friend gave birth! No baby dreams for me this time, so far.

[nfbmom]

I decided to bump this and tell you about my dream from last night.

I was delivering in a hospital (ugh!) and everything went perfectly well until delivery. Thats when I found out that it was still an old fashioned hospital where you delivered in a different room than what you labored in. So the whole time they are wheeling me into the delivery room I'm telling them that my babies come really fast and I wouldn't be surprised if I delivered on the way there.

So I get to the delivery room and a Dr that I've never seen before starts telling me what to do. I told him I've done this many times and I know what to do but that my babies come really fast and what I needed him to do was support my perineum so I didn't tear. So I settled in to push and I had no pushing sensation. I started to worry that the baby was stuck so I tried different positions. The Dr and nurse just sat there and stared at me like I was the biggest oddball! I still couldn't get the pushing sensation but the baby's head was just sitting there at my perineum. I finally got them to call my midwife to get some ideas and she suggestion I just start pushing to see what would happen. I was afraid that would make me tear but I tried anyway and the baby finally started coming.

That was the end of the dream. I'm still trying to figure out what it all means. Maybe just that I'm worried this will be the one baby that doesn't go the same way the rest did. The most I've ever had to push was twice and one time she just slid out with no pushing at all. I also don't get the strange hospital thing. Was I out of town and thats why my midwife wasn't available? If that were the case I'd probably just have the baby unassisted. So, wierd!

[KC in KS]

I'm NOT describing last night's dream

Let's just say it's not fit for anyone under 18, okay?

However, I did have one a couple of weeks ago which has me a little befuddled. I am NOT the type to have preminitions or true-dreams, but in this dream the baby had just been born and someone asked me her name. I replied - get this - "hang on a sec, I have it written down somewhere". I proceed to rummage through my wallet until I come up with a scrap of paper with the baby's name written down. I distinctly remember the letters of the first name jumbling around a bit, but it eventually resolved into either Ariel Grace or Arial Grace. You know, either the mermaid or the MS Word font.

When I told DH about it the next morning, his first comment was, "Oh, I LIKE that name" to which I responded, "But I don't!"

Now I'm really hoping this baby turns out to be a boy so I can chalk the dream up to excessive hormones and pick a name I like. Is that shallow of me?