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Anxiety dreams

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lulubear1 · 09/07/2013 13:06

I am only 8 weeks pregnant but already seme to be having really vivid dreams which i have never had before. They are generally not that pleasant they either centre around my DP having sex with someone else and leaving me and DC alone or my repeatedly forgetting DC in random places. Although they tend to be about DP. Is this normal and likely to continue the whole pregnancy?

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Lj8893 · 09/07/2013 13:27

Yep normal and probably will continue for a while, but may get less frequent.

I've had exactly the same, am now 24 weeks and they arnt as frequent as before and not always about dp cheating.

Apanicaday · 09/07/2013 14:46

Totally normal - I've had them in all three pregnancies. Mine aren't all bad - some are just very surreal, but all are very very vivid, and I usually remember them afterwards. Sadly, they last all the way through the pregnancy for me (last nights was that the baby was born walking and talking), but go away almost immediately afterwards.

polkadotsrock · 09/07/2013 14:51

Yep, actually my dp cheating on me has recently become cheating on me with a bloke! I do not understand where my head goes at all...

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lulubear1 · 09/07/2013 15:19

Glad other peoples seem to be about dp cheating too, was beginning to think is my subconsious trying to tell me something here. I actually woke up one morning furious at my poor dp over my dream, it took a while for my brain to wake up and realise i was dreaming.

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Gonnabmummy · 09/07/2013 22:05

Never about DP but had a few about baby being here. One I burst into huge sobs because when puttin him to bed I realised that I hadn't changed him all day on his first day home. And the worst one was where I was on the bed and flung him against the wall promptly woke after that Shock

stargirl1701 · 09/07/2013 22:08

I had very violent dreams in early pregnancy. They went away in the second trimester. Let your midwife know.

purplemurple1 · 10/07/2013 10:15

I've had some weird ones about a preg I terminated several yrs ago as if I'm now having that child, and the totally unprepared, unsuiatble circumstances etc. As you say it takes a while to wake your brain up and remember that isn't the real situation. Personally though I find it quite reassuring that I'm dreaming about something that can't happen, sure you feel the same way with your dreams about your OH.

WallaceWindsock · 10/07/2013 10:19

With both DC I had the same dream frequently where I opened up my bump to hold the baby and my dead Nana would appear and tell me to put them. Back as they weren't ready to be born yet. With DD I remember the most vivid dream that she had pressed her hand against mine through the skin and I couldn't shake the memory of the feel of her little hand for weeks afterwards. Totally normal but can be very unsettling.

TinkyPeet · 10/07/2013 10:34

Yep. Had lots of dreams about my dh cheating, to the point where I almost accused him of sleeping with someone he works with, lol.
More upsetting were the dreams that I couldn't shake of 'losing' my ds1, and I'd wake up absolutely mortified and be going up to his bedroom (floor above mine) to check him and shake him awake 4 or 5 times a night (this doesn't please him very much) to make sure he's still 'there'

Cannot wait for those dreams to bugger off! :/

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