Oh man - thankfully the terrifying ones have stopped (hopefully permanently) but omg the sex dreams. I’ve had TWO separate sex dreams about Bruce Springsteen which could seem random. I am a fan of the Boss tho, and omg he could totally get it.
I can’t stop having sex dreams about DH which is crazy because I am so not interested. Weird.
I totally get that. I'm interested in the idea of intimacy with my husband, but it's so uncomfortable that I haven't been able to enjoy it and I don't really want it. He's given up trying. I hope things go back to normal after delivery recovery.
I had a dream that baby was stretching really big and we clearly saw two feet push out from my abdomen. And I tickled the feet then we looked on the ultrasound and saw baby smiling and I imagined him or her laughing. 😍
@mighty_montgomery that is so much nicer than my awful dream about DD falling from a great height. There was more, but this totally stemmed from watching an episode of Call The Midwife where a character fell from three stories up, plus DD actually falling off the bed last night.
sorry idk how to nest it so I’m hoping those who are bothered just don’t read it.
last night I had a dream that my ex found me and beat the shit out of me. Mainly kicking my stomach. He only hit me once in our relationship but was extremely possessive and was an ex gang member ( yea I picked a real winner with him) so I was always scared especially when he would drink. The last time I heard from him, his wife had just had their baby and he was still telling me he still loved me and I was telling him to leave me alone. I’m still scared to run into him and I’m pretty sure he still lives about 10 minutes from me. Now I just can’t shake the feeling of fear after that dream. Spending my day staying inside because now I’m terrified I’m going to bump into him somewhere. I hate pregnancy dreams. Mine are always scary
@harveyisaboysname I am glad you were able to get out of that relationship. I hope you get some good pregnancy dreams soon!
Last night I had a strange dream that my husband was having sex with another woman in our bed while I was also in the bed. Apparently I was unnoticeable and I didn't say anything. ? Afterwards, when I told him how hurt I was over it, he explained to me that he did it to devalue her. Men logic.
@harveyisaboysname my pregnancy dreams are always scary as hell too. I have a recurring dream of my kids getting hit or almost hit by a car but just in different scenarios. I can't stand pregnancy dreams.
I just woke up from watching my brother’s video Christmas card play in my mind. Like, standard 5x7 bit of nice paper, with an embedded chip that played a video message across the paper, and you could pause it at certain points. It was freaking cool.
and I was peeved that he didn’t include much video of me or DD, even though he’d probably asked.
My pregnancy dream last night had a uniquely aerospace engineer twist. I was hiking through a park to find a good spot to watch a rocket launch when we stumbled upon the actual launch pad...with the rocket on it...just as the engines were igniting. I knew that there was no way to outrun it and I was about to die. But I remember thinking it was so cool to see it up close. And then I died/woke up. Lol.
In one, I was in the hospital after delivering my baby and I was having trouble getting my daughter to latch correctly. I remember feeling panicked and thinking, "This is not as simple as I thought it would be" because I attended the class and watched so many instructional videos.
In another, I was at home with my newborn baby. DH and I were on the couch. I was lying down with my daughter on my chest just spending family time together. My daughter was crying and I was talking about how she didn't want to be with Mommy and obviously wasn't enjoying our time together. I felt so sad that she wasn't content being on me. Then I woke up and wondered why I didn't try to feed her, see if she needed to be changed, or try swaddling her. She was in her regular clothes but not swaddled and I felt confused why I didn't try that in my dream.
Clearly I have some anxieties about being a first time mom.
Uggghhhh my pregnancy dreams are really boring (mostly about work), but there are so. MANY. I wake up feeling more like I've already put in 10 hours than like I'm rested.
Last night I had a dream that I delivered my baby too early and in bed. 😯
I was lying there with DH in the middle of the night when I suddenly woke up feeling like she was coming. I'm not sure why, but I didn't wake up my husband or look for my phone to call 911. I didn't have any contractions or warning signs leading up to the moment when I suddenly felt the urge to push. I thought about how early she was coming and that she needed to have a medical team around to help her survive but she wasn't going to have that because she was coming so suddenly and quickly I wasn't able to get help, so I tried to keep her inside. But the urge to push was so intense I couldn't do it. So, screaming in pain, I gave birth to my daughter in my bed. As I looked at her body, I felt so heartbroken because all I could think about was, "How much time do I have left with her?" I knew I couldn't keep her alive myself. And then my dream ended.
Thankfully I know that that won't happen in real life. There will be warning signs and contractions, my husband will be coherent and involved, and we will not be staying at home.
Last night I had the first dream about baby that I’ve actually remembered. I was holding him and someone asked me “what’s his name” and I said “Theo. I mean, Theodore, but we call him Theo. Theodore...” and I trailed off and couldn’t remember his middle name so I just said a family name, but I knew it didn’t sound right and even was like “that’s not right...” LO’s MN is going to be James....after my dad. I literally blanked on my dad’s name (which I have always planned on using for my first child’s MN). I woke up and just laughed about it. DH said he believed it based on how terrible my memory has been lately.
@jlklec19, dreams are funny that way! Alsp, my DH made a comment last night to me that, "wow, so pregnancy brain is a thing huh?" After I forgot where I had put my granola bar for work and found it three days later....
@jlklec19 I also just had my first dream with the baby. We had a boy and and named him Neil. He was such a good baby that our first night home we programmed our cell numbers into a cordless phone, stuck it into his crib, and went out to dinner. Clearly we have this parenting thing on-lock...
I definitely had a dream last night that I was leaving a building and could not find my daughter (FTM here). I was embarrassed and panicking thinking about how I would say to the public that I needed help finding her while casually asking friends around me "Who had her last? I can't remember who I handed her off to." Just before making a public plea for help, I loaded her things into my car and found her in her carseat. Guess I forgot I put her in first.
My MIL actually forgot my husband in her car when he was 3. It happens! My husband never forgot...
I keep having dreams about going into labor super early (30weeks now) for several weeks now. Like I’ll be random places or middle of the night and my water breaks 2-3 months early. They’re started to stress me out because they’re reoccurring and DH has had similar ones
Weird one last night. I dreamt I gave my dog my medicine instead of hers (she has Addison’s disease and takes a thyroid and steroid medication daily)
@blueberrymomma that is so scary and stressful! I hope they are nothing more than fears and don't become a reality. ❤ Perhaps having emergency plans in place in case it does happen will help ease the nightmares *hugs*
I have had two dreams in the last week about being in labor. Waking up and freaking out a little, and being relieved I wasn’t actually in labor. In both dreams I was calm and ready though, which is how I felt with DD, so I’m hoping this time around is a nice experience too.
@blueberrymomma that is so scary and stressful! I hope they are nothing more than fears and don't become a reality. ❤ Perhaps having emergency plans in place in case it does happen will help ease the nightmares *hugs*
I actually asked my doctor today what I should do if I go into preterm labor, because a) my hospital doesn’t have a NICU and b) there are 3 other hospital 30min away to choose from. She told me if my water breaks before 36 weeks to go straight to the big children’s hospital. So having a plan definitely makes me feel better.
I had a dream last night that I was seeing into my uterus and looking at my baby in an x-ray like view. A friend and I were together at the time and hers was turned head down. I don't know why, I was turning my bany head down myself which did not go well. Every time I tried to turn her, she would go right back into the same position and just wouldn't stay turned. In the process, one of her ribs broke and her collar bone broke. I cried. Clearly, she just wasn't ready and I shouldn't have tried to force her to be ready to come. I woke up with feelings of guilt and regret and just knowing to let her come when she is ready, not when I want her to come. I think I had this dream bc DH's birthday is March 28th (he doesn't want to share his bday, ideally), she is due April 2nd, I will be induced by April 10th, and we are scheduled to leave for a business trip April 14th so I have been feeling not at ease about whatever timing she is going to have. And of course I don't want a NICU stay, either.
@mighty_montgomery my birthday is March 29 lol. Even though my due date is April 9th I’ve always had a feeling that this will be a March baby, but I don’t care about sharing birthdays. I agree the dream is probably just your stress about all those things happening close together. My question is how are you going to travel so soon after delivery? That sounds exhausting to me.
@blueberrymomma Yeah, that's going to be an interesting trip! It's an hour and a half from home, DH is being reimbursed for our lodging and paid $1,500 bonus for going (probably because our due date was already brought up before he was asked to go). They're letting all of us go together. The alternative is for me to stay with his parents who live an hour away. At either location, the nearest hospitals are the same distance away. DH would prefer not to leave us with his mom for the week, but if I just can't do the trip, baby and I will be dropped off at his mother's house on his way there so I'm not alone.
Last night, I dreamed my obgyn (who actually looked more like my dentist) was arranging surrogacy pregnancies and would pay $21k per pregnancy. I considered it. But then I woke up and googled and compensation for surrogates is actually closer to $45k and now I’m thinking my dream OBGYN is kinda shady.
I had a birth dream last night that was so chill and easy. Haha. I self delivered in a sit position and he was early but not too early and it was good. Then I woke up with a Braxton Hicks and had to pee.
I had a dream last night that DD had her first loose tooth. This morning that exact same tooth from my dream was loose. She of course is super excited but I’m slightly weirded out by the accuracy of my dream
We are waiting to find out the gender until the big day...
I had a dream that we didn't know the gender of our new puppy. Obviously.. we know the gender of the new puppy, and I had this realization in the dream and could not figure out why were were waiting to find out when we already knew. So random and silly.
In last night’s dream, I was having twins and went to the hospital, where the OB was pretty breezy about just saying, “okay, so you’re having a c-section.” Wait what? No trial of labor? “No, better outcomes this way *waves hands*” But what about...
and literally everything i had wanted for birth was just dismissed. I think this reflects my growing unease that we still haven’t finished our birth class, DH hasn’t read through the birth plan I wrote out, and there’s been zero discussion with the OB office.
Totally feel you on that, @lyse01. I'm going to a fairly large hospital this time and haven't even met any of the OBs who are there (I've been going to a CRNP in the town closer to me for checkups). I think they put my wishes in my medical chart, maybe you could ask them to do that at your next appointment so it's at least written down somewhere for the doctors/nurses?
I had a dream last night that there was something wrong with the baby and went to some witch doctor. Like they conversed with some spooky shadow voice in a creepy room and told us everything would turn out all right. Super weird.
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Me:32 DH:33 Married:04/2012 DD:07/2014 BFP 8/14/2018 #2 due 4/18/2019
Every Friday, I have an early morning WebEx with an important client. And without fail, nearly every Friday morning, mass transit messes up in some way and causes me (and usually the rest of my team) to run late by a few minutes. It always stresses me out, to the point that I shower and get ready the night before, and leave my house 30 minutes earlier that I normally would. As usual, I was a little stressed out the night before this week's meeting, which manifested into my dream, where I gave birth at home (8 weeks early mind you) without any assistance, handed the baby to my husband, and said, "Here you handle this for now -- I have to get on this call." WTF?! Can you say overworked?! LOL
@llamamamanyc I mean, CAN you do these calls at home? Sounds like it would be a lot less stressful.
update: apparently baby’s head is already measuring at 41 weeks so they brought up that they’d be comfortable going directly to c-section. Maybe my dream was prescient?
@lyse01 It’s a little tricky because of the technology involved. But I would love to work from home the rest of this pregnancy! Sadly, not gonna happen.
Re: Pregnancy Dreams...
sorry idk how to nest it so I’m hoping those who are bothered just don’t read it.
last night I had a dream that my ex found me and beat the shit out of me. Mainly kicking my stomach. He only hit me once in our relationship but was extremely possessive and was an ex gang member ( yea I picked a real winner with him) so I was always scared especially when he would drink. The last time I heard from him, his wife had just had their baby and he was still telling me he still loved me and I was telling him to leave me alone. I’m still scared to run into him and I’m pretty sure he still lives about 10 minutes from me. Now I just can’t shake the feeling of fear after that dream. Spending my day staying inside because now I’m terrified I’m going to bump into him somewhere. I hate pregnancy dreams. Mine are always scary
Last night I had a strange dream that my husband was having sex with another woman in our bed while I was also in the bed. Apparently I was unnoticeable and I didn't say anything. ? Afterwards, when I told him how hurt I was over it, he explained to me that he did it to devalue her. Men logic.
I can't stand pregnancy dreams.
and I was peeved that he didn’t include much video of me or DD, even though he’d probably asked.
In one, I was in the hospital after delivering my baby and I was having trouble getting my daughter to latch correctly. I remember feeling panicked and thinking, "This is not as simple as I thought it would be" because I attended the class and watched so many instructional videos.
In another, I was at home with my newborn baby. DH and I were on the couch. I was lying down with my daughter on my chest just spending family time together. My daughter was crying and I was talking about how she didn't want to be with Mommy and obviously wasn't enjoying our time together. I felt so sad that she wasn't content being on me. Then I woke up and wondered why I didn't try to feed her, see if she needed to be changed, or try swaddling her. She was in her regular clothes but not swaddled and I felt confused why I didn't try that in my dream.
Clearly I have some anxieties about being a first time mom.
I was lying there with DH in the middle of the night when I suddenly woke up feeling like she was coming. I'm not sure why, but I didn't wake up my husband or look for my phone to call 911. I didn't have any contractions or warning signs leading up to the moment when I suddenly felt the urge to push. I thought about how early she was coming and that she needed to have a medical team around to help her survive but she wasn't going to have that because she was coming so suddenly and quickly I wasn't able to get help, so I tried to keep her inside. But the urge to push was so intense I couldn't do it. So, screaming in pain, I gave birth to my daughter in my bed. As I looked at her body, I felt so heartbroken because all I could think about was, "How much time do I have left with her?" I knew I couldn't keep her alive myself. And then my dream ended.
Thankfully I know that that won't happen in real life. There will be warning signs and contractions, my husband will be coherent and involved, and we will not be staying at home.
My MIL actually forgot my husband in her car when he was 3. It happens! My husband never forgot...
Weird one last night. I dreamt I gave my dog my medicine instead of hers (she has Addison’s disease and takes a thyroid and steroid medication daily)
Perhaps having emergency plans in place in case it does happen will help ease the nightmares *hugs*
I think I had this dream bc DH's birthday is March 28th (he doesn't want to share his bday, ideally), she is due April 2nd, I will be induced by April 10th, and we are scheduled to leave for a business trip April 14th so I have been feeling not at ease about whatever timing she is going to have. And of course I don't want a NICU stay, either.
It's an hour and a half from home, DH is being reimbursed for our lodging and paid $1,500 bonus for going (probably because our due date was already brought up before he was asked to go). They're letting all of us go together. The alternative is for me to stay with his parents who live an hour away. At either location, the nearest hospitals are the same distance away. DH would prefer not to leave us with his mom for the week, but if I just can't do the trip, baby and I will be dropped off at his mother's house on his way there so I'm not alone.
I had a dream that we didn't know the gender of our new puppy. Obviously.. we know the gender of the new puppy, and I had this realization in the dream and could not figure out why were were waiting to find out when we already knew. So random and silly.
and literally everything i had wanted for birth was just dismissed. I think this reflects my growing unease that we still haven’t finished our birth class, DH hasn’t read through the birth plan I wrote out, and there’s been zero discussion with the OB office.
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Me:32 DH:33 Married:04/2012 DD:07/2014
BFP 8/14/2018 #2 due 4/18/2019
update: apparently baby’s head is already measuring at 41 weeks so they brought up that they’d be comfortable going directly to c-section. Maybe my dream was prescient?