Nightmares

[fruitful womb]

Forgive me if there is already a thread about Nightmares. After page 4 with nothing on the topic I begin this thread. I'm new and feel that I have a lot of support to offer. I had serious PPD after my first child was born. It was so bad I was hearing things and seeing things. I'd have urges to hurt my ds and would cry all the time. I was terrified after I found out about my pregnant with ds2. I did NOT want to go through that again! I had mild blues after he was born but it got worse. I was very depressed and spoke very little. It was hormones and I had just moved after he was 3months. That was hard on me. It wasn't as bad as ds1, and I'm so grateful for that. DD was born and that was the year I first joined. I never got pass the initial registration because I was in such pain for months, gas pains after she was born, that I did not do much with MDC. I cried a few times but I did not get that depressed. All I needed was sleep. I think I started to figure out this whole PPD at that point. Ds#3 4th child (I know a lot of kids) no depression. YEA!!! BUT I have horrid visible pre-cognitive dreams! Shall I use them to my advantage, I do. I've been able to find things I've lost and I've been warned about certain ppl and dealt with them appropriately, so far. I'm afraid that if I dwell on these dreams that I might get very depressed. Oh, had my ds in April 09, 2007 on daddy's birthday born at home 9/8 Liam. My dreams keep getting more realistic as time goes on. Had a few of these while pregnant but they really started happening after I drank my placenta. Don't know if the two are connected. So far I figured out that the very answer to avoid PPD this time around, with each child it got less and less: After the baby is born do very little, MY BIGGEST MISTAKE was that I did too much too soon and it contributed to my PPD, proper sleep, SLEEP when the baby sleeps, Drink a glass a wine ONE glass if its hard to fall asleep, take homeopathic Sepia, eat a well balance diet, take your supplements DHA is great, drink a lot of water, and try avoiding negative people and negative vibes when your most vulnerable. So far I've warded off PPD. Will these uncontrollable dreams bring me down? What are your experiences?

[timneh_mom]

Didn't want to read this without responding, I don't have any suggestions for you but it seems like I've always had bad dreams post partum, with both kids I did. My dreams after I had my first felt really empty, kind of like I was such a new mother that my son wasn't even in my mind in my dreams, so I would wake up feeling awful like he wasn't there. I have had some pretty gruesome dreams after the birth of both babies, actually during pregnancy too, which really bothered me for a long time. (I don't want to go into what happened in my dreams because it will sound awful and I don't want anyone who is sensitive to read that.)

I am chalking up the post partum nightmares to be strongly related to stress and lack of sleep, and the pregnancy ones probably on hormones. I haven't had any bad dreams lately but I don't think I've slept long enough to actually have a dream... DD has been awful lately and both kids have colds. I still don't know if I have PPD or sleep deprivation because sleep deprivation to me feels like depression, I have had that before, it was before I ever was pregnant. I think for me sleep deprivation has an underlying anger/rage to it and that is the hardest part for me.

I hope you are feeling better mama... it would be hard to have those types of dreams and feel like you can't tell the person about it...