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I'm just curious if any of you have had dreams of your birth yet. Please post them as well as your thoughts about the dreams.
I have had 2 dreams. The first dream was early on in the pregnancy. I had the baby at a beach house in North Carolina's Outer Banks during the day. I was standing up at the top of a staircase and the baby came out with such force that it almost fell down the steps. I barely saved it because it was so slippery. it almost squirmed out of my hands. He was covered in green meconium and afterbirth,(I mean, in ungodly amounts!!) but he was healthy. This was a gross-out dream and I think it was exorcising my fears.
My next dream was at about 5 months. It was SO REAL! I saw myself in my dining room at night. I was in the last stages of labor on my hands and knees. My mother was delivering the baby. (DH was nowhere around, haha!) I felt like my vagina was so open and huge that I couldn't imagine it being stretched like that for much longer. It didn't hurt, but it burned. THe head was alread out and my Mom was encouraging me to puch out the rest of the body. I did and layed down on my back in total exhaustion. My Mom laid the baby next to me in my arms. We looked at each other. I felt like it was a girl. Then I woke up.
I loved this dream, even though it was not the water birth I planned. I think it was preparing me for the possibilites of what it may feel like and how my Mom might participate. They say that sometimes the baby lets you know what position to get into for the best birth. I wonder if this is how I will labor?
Jess
I have had 2 dreams. The first dream was early on in the pregnancy. I had the baby at a beach house in North Carolina's Outer Banks during the day. I was standing up at the top of a staircase and the baby came out with such force that it almost fell down the steps. I barely saved it because it was so slippery. it almost squirmed out of my hands. He was covered in green meconium and afterbirth,(I mean, in ungodly amounts!!) but he was healthy. This was a gross-out dream and I think it was exorcising my fears.
My next dream was at about 5 months. It was SO REAL! I saw myself in my dining room at night. I was in the last stages of labor on my hands and knees. My mother was delivering the baby. (DH was nowhere around, haha!) I felt like my vagina was so open and huge that I couldn't imagine it being stretched like that for much longer. It didn't hurt, but it burned. THe head was alread out and my Mom was encouraging me to puch out the rest of the body. I did and layed down on my back in total exhaustion. My Mom laid the baby next to me in my arms. We looked at each other. I felt like it was a girl. Then I woke up.
I loved this dream, even though it was not the water birth I planned. I think it was preparing me for the possibilites of what it may feel like and how my Mom might participate. They say that sometimes the baby lets you know what position to get into for the best birth. I wonder if this is how I will labor?
Jess
