Pregnant women are known to have
dreams and some of these dreams are very unpleasant and frightening. I know I must
have had these dreams when I was pregnant with my son because my anxiety level
for that pregnancy was very high.
Recently I had two dreams, one was
that I went to my doctor for what was supposed to be a routine prenatal visit
and learned that my baby had died. I was, as anyone can well imagined, very
devastated and having already had a shower and has purchased everything and is
now ready for our new addition, this is not a reality I want to relive.
The other dream was that I had checked
into the hospital and was awaiting my c-section surgery. I waited for a while
and my doctor, nor any nurse, did not show up to prepare me for my surgery, I
later saw one of my sisters and she refused to look at me. Fearing that this
was an indication that something was wrong, I hesitantly asked her, what’s the
matter, to which she replied, there is something terribly wrong with your baby.
It felt like someone had taken a knife and stabbed me in my heart. I quickly
awoke and was relieved that this was only a dream. I was still rather disturbed.
Have you been pregnant or are you
pregnant and can relate. Please see a link below to an article about why
pregnant women have these dreams and what they are actually telling
us about this very special time in our lives.
From the article:
“ Pregnancy is one of the most powerful experiences any
woman can face. A woman’s body changes enormously during childhood and
adolescence, but to meet such enormous physical, personal and social changes as
an adult is a huge challenge. A woman’s dreams at such a time not only show
some of the detailed events that are occurring physically, but also comment on
psychological and relationship events and subtleties too.
It is also
very common for women to dream about actually having the baby, and these dreams
are often bizarre or even disturbing to the dreamer. Winget and Kapp found that
a high percentage of dreams showed this theme of anxiety, and by following
their research through, they were able to observe that the more anxiety dreams
a mother-to-be had, the easier the birth was. They conjectured that the anxiety
dreams release a lot of tension and fear, and the mother is therefore more
relaxed at the time of the birth – usually less than ten hours."
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