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Before I was in your tummy, I was dead, and before then I was a little girl.

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QuintessentialShadow · 06/07/2009 00:09

My 4 year old son broke those news during breakfast today.

This was the conversation:

"mummy, what happens after you die"

"not much. you are dead"

"NO you become alive again"

"No sweetheart. you dont, when you die, that is it".

"no, you live, you die, you live again"

"OH,honey, you mean, what were you before you were in my tummy?"

"no mummy, before I was in your tummy, I was ead, and before then, I was a little girl. I had an older brother then also"

I was slightly taken aback. Is this normal?

OP posts:
doubleinstructions · 08/03/2010 23:30

Interesting thread,my mother says I was simiilar...describing my house and surrounding land,I ws an old lady who baked a lot apparently. I used to get extremely cross that I was in the wrong place and with the wrong family and gave my parents and siblings a hard time off it.

LittlePushka · 08/03/2010 23:47

at the weekend we cleared a part of land overgrown next to out old house that had never been touched for YEARS! We found an ancient wheelbarrow beneath it all. DS 3.6 walked up to it and said-

" Mammy, this used to be a School and Joe's daddy put that there" walked off and continued doing his soil thing.

Now, this house did used to be a school and it was owned for many many years by a man called Joseph.

!! The normally rational Puska is truly puggled (but fascinated)by this and all of these posts

kissingfrogs · 08/03/2010 23:52

I once had a really vivid dream where I was holding my twin sister's hand as we were flying & swooping over a vividly colourful countryside. I was laughing and really happy as I was showing her the path in life we were about to have together.
I've always remembered that dream as it felt as if it was a real memory

Speaking of dreams: I was about to buy a motorbike engine (as you do) and the night before I did I drempt I was in a motorbike accident - I was dressed in scarlet (!) and my motorbikebike plunged into a river.
When I bought an old 1947 BSA engine the next day, I wasn't suprised to hear that the man selling it said it had been dug out of a river bank. Uncanny!
Woo!!!!

LauraIngallsWilder · 09/03/2010 00:25

I remember this thread from last summer!

Hey where are you quint? Any chance of an update - Has your lo enlightened you any further?

As far as I understand it children who say things like this generally stop by the time they are 5/6

toucancancan · 11/03/2010 13:58

I'm enjoying following this thread. Sad I can't contribute with anything thou... I'm hoping when DS 2 can speak he'll have something interesting to tell me.

QuintessentialShadows · 14/03/2010 21:35

It is amazing this thread is still going. And with so many fascinating stories.
It is reassuring to see other similar experiences.

At the moment I cannot think of anything else he has said other than, when talking to my mum a few weeks ago " .... but this is not going to happen yet, and you wont be here grandma, you will be dead then." She looked really taken aback. (She is 75) and he then said "But it is nothing to worry about, because we will all die one day".

My other son (now 7) had some interesting occasions of "seeing things". But not for a few years now.

Snowtiger · 14/03/2010 22:02

This is the first time I've seen this thread but it's amazing - wonderful to read! Some of the stories are just but in the most fantastic way.

I'm a bit on the woo side myself and have for ages hoped that DS1 (currently 2.6) would share something from a previous life but nothing so far..!

I'm 36 wks pregnant with DS2 though, and his conception was bizarrely 'meant to be' (shan't put anyone off their dinner with TMI!) that really made me feel he'd been waiting for so long that at the first opportunity he literally dived right in! His name was chosen for him before I even conceived, and I have a very strong sense that he and DS1 have waited a long time to be brothers (again?) in this life.

I've been feeling a bit weird and hormonal and frightened today, but finding this thread and all the stories has really felt like something I was 'meant' to read to reassure me that all is well, and everything has been planned / chosen well in advance, so all I have to do is just go with it, and trust. Am really glad to have found it!

hellymelly · 15/03/2010 22:55

I read this thread last night and today I asked dd2 "where were you before you were in Mummy's tummy?" she said "I don't know,where was I ?" I said "I don't know darling,do you remember?" and then she thought and said "I was in bed,before I was your tummy" me-"why were you in bed?" " I don't know,but I was in bed".Nothing further! (she is 2y 10m)

mrsmharket · 17/03/2010 15:24

dd talks about being deaded and growing back down to be a baby again

Rhiannonthescribbler · 18/12/2010 22:49

What an amazing thread! I said to my mum and auntie when I was about 4 about "coming over from India and bringing tea over on the huge boats with their big sails" my auntie nearly flipped lol. I have no memory of ever living in India and didn't say anything else on the matter.

I work with children and we do name some as "old souls" as they just seem rediculously wise and knowing for such small children.

Curiousmama · 21/12/2010 00:21

I've just read through this thread and it's fascinating Smile I know of 2 dcs (friends dcs) who both said they were chinese and talked about the food, culture etc.. from a very young age. I don't think they do now as they're both 10 and 11. Neither of the children know each other as the two friends have only met once. And yes it was a very woo day when we all got together Grin I'm a developing medium so was quite comfortable with their stories.

mrskbpw · 22/12/2010 15:26

I love the story of being followed round by your daughter. What a lovely thought.

I am going to ask my son (he's 3 and a half) where he lived before he was in my tummy. I bet he says Tesco.

I have two boys, but I've had several very vivid dreams about a little girl with blonde curls. Before I was pregnant for the first time, and since. She's always called Daisy or Rosie in my dreams. I have often wondered if she's my daughter. One of the mums from preschool is psychic, and she once told me she could see little pink boots at my front door. My husband is adamant he doesn't want any more children, but who knows....

wahwahwah · 22/12/2010 15:31

Wasn't there an american woman who felt she had lived before and managed to track down 'family' in Ireland who really believed that she was the reincarnation of someone in the family? Aparently she 'remembered' loads of familt details that sh coudln't have researched. I think there was a book about it.

Sisqinanamook · 22/12/2010 15:50

My DS, when he was 3, told me that he used to look after me really well before and that now I do it all for him.

wahwahwah · 22/12/2010 15:53

One of my sisters kids used to go on and on about 'when she lived before'. It used to really freak my sister out.

Curiousmama · 22/12/2010 20:00

Wonder what that book is wahwahwah? I'll do a search for it.

Curiousmama · 22/12/2010 20:05

This one sounds similar?

kissingfrogs · 22/12/2010 23:33

My youngest daughter sometimes doesn't make sense as she has a language problem, but she likes to talk about how she was trying to find me before she was born. She also claims she was her nana's nana.

Bizzare and lovely to hear her speak of these things.

But recently she told me how I was going to die. It was scary and I don't want to repeat what she said. If I told you you'd think she was really freaky.

Lets just say I'd rather not believe any of it now Confused

yellowkiwi · 23/12/2010 00:05

This thread has made me feel spooked. It's also reminded me that when DS was 2 or 3 he often used to say that there was a lady living in him.

tomhardyismydh · 23/12/2010 00:15

this is a lovely thread, my dd often says to me when I was your mummy or when i was granny xxxx. my mum pased away before she was born, so nice to think this is probable.

I read cloud atlas when i was pg and was so poignent to me i named dd after a charater.

wonka · 23/12/2010 00:17

Must read cloud atalas!
Wonderfull thread.. thank you to whoever revived it!

tomhardyismydh · 23/12/2010 00:25

when i was a little girl i used to have very vivid memories of being a toddler boy in nappies wandering away from a house on a main country road with a big drive and the memorie ends sitting in a bush watching people look for me. thats a bit spooky.

i also visited some where as a child and had remembered being there before and telling my mum when i used to live here...she told me i hadnt ever been there before.

juneybean · 23/12/2010 00:29

Ooo this interests me, I think it'd be amazing to have lived before, I'm very into my family tree and it'd be so weird but wonderful to be one of my ancestors born again.

MrsRhettButler · 23/12/2010 01:23

when i was about 7 1/2 mnths pg with dd, i had a dream where i gave birth and the baby that i gave birth to was a very small (slightly prem?) very light skinned girl but very hairy, dark hair... then when i actually gave birth (9 days over) i realised that the little baby in my dream was dd! looked exactly like her but was smaller/skinnier and the hair all over her would have been the hair that covers baby more in the womb?

i really believe that i saw dd before she was born and i saw her the way she looked at that moment in time inside of me...

by hair all over i mean on her face/forehead like some babies still have when they are born, i just know it was her :)

Curiousmama · 23/12/2010 11:25

Will google cloud atlas now.

I think I'll ask the library if they have some of the books as it's only 30p to order them in. All depends if the big library have them?

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