Stoopid pregnancy dreams

[Trinaluce]

Up until last night the pregnancy dreams were really quite enjoyable - but last night I dreamt I lost the baby .

I'm 17 weeks so movements are really sporadic anyway, but for the last few days there's been something really definite around 9pm. Today: NOTHING. Honestly bump, this isn't on!

HATE stoopid pregnancy dreams, ANGRY at baby for playing along! Need , can't have it...

It is just an anxiety dream - doesn't stop it being vivid and scary and haunting, but it is just your own anxieties reflected in a dream.

When I was preg with DC2 I had loads of horrible vivid dreams about losing not him, but DC1, who was then a small toddler! I'd dream that I was holding the new baby, standing in some really dangerous landscape (who knows why, we don't live anywhere like that) and she would fall down a crater or off the edge of a steep drop and I would (in the dream) have a split second of not knowing what to do with the baby and not grab for her/ jump after her in time and she'd be gone, and I'd wake in a cold sweat and have to go and check on her... Even though in rational waking life I was very convinced that our planned for smallish age gap was a good thing, I must have had subconscious guilt going on or something! It certainly wasn't a prophesy, and she's fine now and nearly 5.5, so no longer the tiny tot I saw in my dreams!

If you are worried about the lack of movement you could exaggerate the previous frequency and call your hospital's early pregnancy unit, or out of hours midwife number, and they might invite you in for monitoring to reassure you - I went in for monitoring twice in my first pregnancy for fairly minor reasons - wouldn't mention the dream though!

I agree, they're just anxiety dreams - although when they're happening the "just" bit goes out of the window.

When I was pregnant with DS I used to dream about dropping him and not in any sort of comical "haha, I dropped the baby" way but really horrific, graphic dreams of dropping him from a great height onto a hard surface. I also had dreams about having to hide him an keep him quiet because there were monsters in the house looking for him. And yes, dreams of losing the pregnancy in various graphic ways.

It's all normal and they don't mean anything, they're just your minds way of dealing with any fears around pregnancy and motherhood. One of my friends has a theory that your mind makes you do things in your dreams, like dropping the baby, so that you don't do them in real life.

Try having something very very cold to drink, orange juice works great, and seeing if that prompts some action. If you're worried though then ring the assessment unit, just tell them things have been quiet and you're worried and want to go in, they'll be able to check you out.

ah bless ya dont worry, it happens to us all, even when we are not pregnant we have dreams about members of our family dying. Well I do. Silly dreams that mean nothing are part and parcel of pregnancy. I had a dream the other day that I quantum leaped into a champion swimmers body but I didnt know how to swim and nearly died trying.
Dont worry to mush about them even though it might have been vivid otherwise you might have the same dream again or soemthing similar.