Breastfeeding 1-2-3 » dreams http://www.blisstree.com/breastfeeding123 Breastfeeding 1-2-3: A Blog for Breastfeeding Tips and Support Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:49:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Any Dream Analysts Out There? http://www.blisstree.com/breastfeeding123/any-dream-analysts-out-there/ http://www.blisstree.com/breastfeeding123/any-dream-analysts-out-there/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:53:34 +0000 Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor http://www.breastfeeding123.com/any-dream-analysts-out-there/ Post from: Breastfeeding 1-2-3

]]> I have had two dreams — nightmares — that Nicole turned out not to be mine. The first dream happened when she was six weeks old. In the dream, my husband and I were staying at a hotel. There was a knock on the door, and in walked one of my old neighbors from Michigan. He had come to pick the baby up. “Thanks for watching her!” he said, and walked out the door with her. I was positively heartbroken to realize that I had only been babysitting and I had fallen so in love with her that I had convinced myself she was mine.

In the second dream, I realized that when I went to work each day (which is bizarre because I do not work outside the home in my waking life), the baby went to her “real” mother in prison. I was the wet nurse that took care of the baby at night when she wasn’t allowed to visit her mother in prison. I had to decide whether I wanted to continue being a wet nurse in spite of the risk of disease transmission. Again I was broken-hearted that Nicole wasn’t mine.

At first I thought the dreams were simply affirming my love for Nicole. Now I wonder whether they are about my subconsciously feeling inadequate as a mother. “Maybe I’ll be found out as a fraud and someone will come take her away from me!” I don’t feel that way during the day. I enjoy her a lot and she is an easy baby. If anything I worry about giving my older girls enough attention and reassurance during this time of change in our family. So I am not sure why I am dreaming these dreams. I certainly plan before I go to bed to tell myself not to dream those dreams anymore!

Have you had similar dreams? Any thoughts on the interpretation?

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]]> http://www.blisstree.com/breastfeeding123/any-dream-analysts-out-there/feed/ 13 On Baby Watch 2008: 38 Weeks http://www.blisstree.com/breastfeeding123/on-baby-watch-2008-38-weeks/ http://www.blisstree.com/breastfeeding123/on-baby-watch-2008-38-weeks/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:29:16 +0000 Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor http://www.breastfeeding123.com/on-baby-watch-2008-38-weeks/ Post from: Breastfeeding 1-2-3

]]> Today marks 38 weeks of pregnancy. My thoughts at this point:

1. Husband home from Ireland [check]. Birth supplies bought [check]. Birth tub set up [check]. A million nesting tasks accomplished [meals in freezer - check; air vent dusted - check]. Group B Strep test negative [check].

2. Call them Braxton-Hicks, call them pre-labor, I call them “hinting at painful.”

3. Perhaps I ought to work on positive thinking and consider them not so much painful as powerful.

4. Why, when a woman is preparing to give birth and needs all the rest she can get, does she find herself with insomnia that has her awake from 2:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.?

5. When I finally fell back asleep, I dreamed I was Jessica Simpson (I think my brain confused her with Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears) and I was in high school and I had gotten pregnant by Mario Lopez (I always did think he’s cute) and I was going to track him down and hold him responsible. Gee, do you think I have any last-minute anxiety about giving birth and caring for a new baby?

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