Birth Dreams!

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lightheartedmom

Discussion Starter · Apr 10, 2009

Any other moms having these?

I had them frequently during my first and second trimester and then they stopped for awhile.

Last night I had one! It was like almost all the others in that I delivered FAST and at home (planning on hospital birth since home is not a good option for us practically speaking). My water broke while I was outside walking, I just noticed something trickling down my leg, then I sat down on the toilet and felt something that I thought was my mucus plug (I'm not sure my dream was biologically in order - don't you lose the mucus plug first? ;-) Last time my water broke during labor, which was induced before I ever had the chance to lose the MP...so I don't know). Anyway...I put my hand down to feel what was going on and...that was not a mucus plug. ;-) It was the baby! Gotta love dreams where crowning doesn't hurt at all. Little one just slithered out into my arms, but wasn't crying at first. I remember hitting the chest and then eyes opened and it cried a little bit. My husband wasn't home in the dream, my mom was there (which would NOT happen in real life), but I didn't want to check to see if it was a boy or girl until he was there. I was yelling at my mom to call 911 because we needed to get the baby to the hospital.
Eventually, I did look and it was a girl!

In all my other dreams, it's been a boy.
I'm not sure why I was so urgent about getting the baby to the hospital...the ambulance never showed up in my dream.

But the baby was fine and the delivery was easy.

I hope it's like that in real life!

I'm chalking this one up to the fact that I was very nesty yesterday and actually got important things off my "to-do-before-baby" list finished. And I specifically told DH last night, if the baby came tomorrow it would be okay. Hmm...no. [talking to belly] Stay there baby. Wait a few more weeks.

Anyone else having vivid delivery dreams at this point?

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Ldavis24

· #2 · Apr 10, 2009

I have been having birth dreams for the past month or so every few nights. Some have been terrible! One where a 4 inch long needle was stabbed in my arm by a nurse. Others have been amazingly interesting to think about when I wake up...

I have also had a few dreams where I have already had the baby but don't remember it and then meet my kid and she is already 2 years old and a totally different race. Very weird and confusing...
I have always had nightly dreams though even before pregnancy and now they are just getting weirder and weirder and more centered around having a baby.

Had quite a few where I was trying to breastfeed DD or was. Does pregnancy make you dream crazier things?

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lotus.blossom

· #3 · Apr 10, 2009

I had my first birth dream last night. (in reality) Hubby and I DTD and I started having some mild ctx. Went to sleep and kept waking up with them, although I knew it wasn't "it" I think it got my mind racing.

The only thing I remember from the dream is being in the pool and pulling the little slippery baby out of the water and gazing upon him for the first time. The feeling I had was enormous. Like nothing I have ever experienced before. I woke up so warm and fuzzy.

Reminds me of the one dream I had before my DS. I was nursing him and it was the same kind of overwhelming feeling.

Dreams are really amazing!

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lightheartedmom

Discussion Starter · #4 · Apr 10, 2009

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Originally Posted by lotus.blossom

I LOVE that feeling!! I always wake up so excited after a dream about meeting my baby.

LDavis: Pregnancy gives me ridiculously crazy dreams. This pg, I have not been unusually emotional at all in real life (aside from one movie, I have not shed a single tear this entire pregnancy), but in my dreams, literally every emotion or feeling I have is way amplified. I have strange and totally uncharacteristic sex dreams (or dreams of a sexual nature...usually not actually DTD), crazy dreams about my anxieties - particularly ones related to unresolved issues between me and my family, dreams about things I'm fearful of, excited about, etc. Definitely...the hormones are at work in dreamland.

Oh! and I just told DH about my birth dream and then we started talking about the dreams we had last night (I had several)...we had almost the same dream about something else.

Funny...I guess we share a lot of the same anxieties.

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major_mama11

· #5 · Apr 11, 2009

I haven't had a lot of birth dreams that I remember. The thing I always dream about is not knowing how to breastfeed. I dreamt about trying to figure it out with DD, which is understandable since she was my first. But c'mon, why the breastfeeding anxiety dreams with the second child- I breastfed DD for almost 3 yrs, so I was kinda hoping it would come a little more naturally this time...

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trauerweidchen

· #6 · Apr 11, 2009

I've had a couple of birth dreams, but in the latest one I was at my parents' house (where I was born) and I gave birth alone to a tiny little boy, who wasn't breathing at first. I was upset because my mother was doing the dishes in the kitchen but just HAD to finish them before helping me by calling my husband and my midwife. (Completely unrealistic--in real life, she'd have been rushing about trying to help any way she could.) So I was trying to get my baby to breathe as he turned blue, while also trying to call two people on the telephone! He started breathing and got pink, and seemed healthy, if tiny, but by the end of the dream he'd morphed into a large kitten, which was nursing well and doing fine, but I had a keen sense of disappointment that we'd had a cat instead of a human child.

This seems to be a common theme of my birth dreams; a cat is often the end result, probably because we have four of them! I'll be relieved when the baby arrives so I don't have to question the species anymore.