Dreaming Again

I've been having labor dreams again.  I don't remember much when I wake up but I know that they are about labor.  Sharon always gets in trouble in them too-those are the parts I remember.  The one I had Saturday night, Sharon wouldn't answer any of her phones.  I knew from a friend that she was with one of our other friends and she was purposefully not answering her phones.  I guess that's my anxiety coming out.  I think that dream wiped me out because I had no energy yesterday.

I can't wait to see this little guy, hopefully this is the week - WEEK 40!!!

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Labor Dream

I'm still getting wacky dreams.  This weekend I had a dream about labor.  It's true, I may be getting a little worried or anxious about labor, especially with the information that we get in our lamaze class and the videos we watch.  Last week one of the videos was very intense for me and I think this precipitated my latest dream.  We watched all of these women who were in the "pushing" stage of labor and basically just watched them in contractions, moaning, hitting their partners, etc. and then giving birth.  Okay, can you say traumatizing.  First of all, I have never been to a live birth so seeing these babies coming out was in and of itself frightening.  Secondly, to go from one woman to another who is either moaning, screaming, hitting their partner, chanting, etc. with no break for about 30 minutes was almost too much for me.  I was near tears through the entire video.  Since this class, I've been doing more reading and actually the doulas reassured me of some of the fears I have in general of labor so I'm doing okay with all of the information now, so I thought...then I had this dream:

My dream was about delivering the baby and I was in labor for 34 hours AND the doctors put me under.  So I was unconscious throughout the entire labor.  When I came to, they handed me my baby and I was convinced it wasn't mine, I mean how did I know that they didn't just give me someone else's baby.  I was very upset with the doctors for putting me under as I wanted to experience my labor and see my baby enter the world.  It was pretty creepy and that's all I remember of the dream. 

When I woke up that morning, I was sharing my dream with Sharon.  She didn't seem alarmed by the dream and I emphasized, "they put me under, how do I know that was my baby."  She said, "it was our baby, I was right there with you."  I said, "how do you know?"  And she said, "You were unconscious, I'm just filling in the missing pieces."  It was very sweet.

 

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Nightmares

I have had several nightmares recently.  The major scary one was when I killed two people (husband and wife).  I didn't know who they were at first.  I killed them with a lava lamp.  I tried to make it look like the husband killed the wife, the police bought it at first.  Then they saw me kick the wife in the head.  I woke up in the middle of the night, tried to get the dream out of my head and was unsuccessful.  Later that night, I dreamed that the husband and wife were swimming in the ocean-ALIVE and that the wife was my good friend.  Pretty freaky dream.

I also had a dream that a Venezuelan boy was shooting darts at my face.  My most recent dream I was smoking cigarattes while pregnant.  Sharon and Angie were telling me I shouldn't be smoking and I told them I didn't care that it wouldn't harm the baby.

Fortunately I recently read that many pregnant women have nightmares and they should go away after giving birth.  In the meantime, I've decided not to watch any Law and Order shows (my favorite) or read any thriller novels.  I'm watching lots of Children and Family movies, such as Homeward Bound and Shark Tale.

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